On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 tblanchard at mac.com wrote:

> I've had good luck with NextStep classic plist format over the wire.
> Its dead simple.
>
> Dictionary is { key = value; key2 = value2; }
> List is ( one, two, 3, "four or more\nsecond line", five )
> Strings are simple if they are just tokens (no whitespace or
> punctuation) or like C-style string literals otherwise.
>
> Combine elements in any combination.  Dead easy to write a parser too
> (I have one in java if anyone wants it).  Probably do one in Squeak
> pretty soon unless someone can point me to a better serialization
> format already there.

I started writing one, haven't quite gotten around to finishing - looks
like what I have is at
http://beta4.com/squeak/aubergines/source/PropertyList.st

If you want to finish it off, great.