YAML Ain't Markup Language

On 24/12/01 21:28 +0200, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
> Brian Ingerson [mailto:ingy@...] wrote:
> > Proposal: \
> >  A DOMAIN directive should be added to indicate which 
> > organization owns a
> >  particular document.
> > Note: \
> >  This domain would be used to resolve relative transfer URLs, 
> > unless another
> >  fully qualified URL was specified in the document.
> 
> 
> Do you mean that it would be prefixed to any relative URI regardless of |
> usage? I have a problem with that because it makes !seq etc. a problem.
> 
> Or does this mean the DOMAIN is what would be prefixed to !|... for nodes
> with no !...|... ancestor? That makes a bit more sense...

I meant this one.

> I don't know if I would call it 'DOMAIN', however. 'NAMESPACE' would be a
> better description. Or DEFAULT_URI_PREFIX if one wanted to be correct
> technically.

Or OWNER. The spirit of this is not just to indicate the DEFAULT_URI_PREFIX,
but to say who owns the usage of the document.

> Do we really need this for YAML:1.0?

No. But if we consider making every YAML document have a header, this would
be a nice addition.

Cheers, Brian

Brian Ingerson [mailto:ingy@...] wrote:
> > Or does this mean the DOMAIN is what would be prefixed to 
> !|... for nodes
> > with no !...|... ancestor? That makes a bit more sense...
> 
> I meant this one.

OK.

> > I don't know if I would call it 'DOMAIN', however. 
> > 'NAMESPACE' would be a
> > better description. Or DEFAULT_URI_PREFIX if one wanted to 
> > be correct technically.
> 
> Or OWNER. The spirit of this is not just to indicate the 
> DEFAULT_URI_PREFIX,
> but to say who owns the usage of the document.

I have a problem with that. DEFAULT_URI_PREFIX I can grok. But what does
'owner' mean? Is the URI prefix for the domain a URI for "an owner"?

> > Do we really need this for YAML:1.0?
> 
> No. But if we consider making every YAML document have a 
> header, this would be a nice addition.

I'm not for requiring every YAML document to have a header... not unless
there's a good reason for it. I haven't seen one so far.

Have fun,

	Oren Ben-Kiki