[Ur] Save recursive datatype in a DB

Adam Chlipala adamc at csail.mit.edu
Mon Apr 14 10:47:47 EDT 2014


No, there's no standard support now for serialization to XML.

On 04/14/2014 10:21 AM, Marco Maggesi wrote:
> Ah, good.
> Thanks, This solves my problem.
> As a side curiosity, can the serialised type family be used to 
> encode/decode to xml?
>
>
>
> 2014-04-14 14:16 GMT+02:00 Adam Chlipala <adamc at csail.mit.edu 
> <mailto:adamc at csail.mit.edu>>:
>
>     On 04/14/2014 03:13 AM, Marco Maggesi wrote:
>>     I have a tree-like datatype as follows
>>
>>     datatype tree =
>>       | Leaf of { Label : string }
>>       | Node of { Label : string, Children : list tree}
>>
>>     and I would like to write values of tree type inside an SQL database.
>
>     I expect the built-in [serialized] type family is exactly what you
>     want.  You could help me test the documentation, by seeing if this
>     tip is enough to point you in the right direction without more
>     detail here. :)
>
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