Re: [Yaml-core] YAML talk to DC Python audience

[Brian I. <in...@tt...>]

On 21/09/02 12:46 -0600, why the lucky stiff wrote:
> Steve Howell (sh...@zi...) wrote:
> > The YAML talk seemed to be well received.  Most of the questions afterward dealt
> > with quoting issues.  I had sort of pitched YAML as a Pythonic way of
> > representing your data, without having to quote all the strings.  Folks also
> > asked whether I had investigated ReStructuredText (REST).  I haven't.  If
> > somebody has comments about REST, please add them to this page:
> 
> I believe the original StructuredText was a Zope product.  Incredibly useful
> because you could use Wiki-like markup in a document (a StructuredText document)
> and include it in your DTML or PageTemplate.  The document could be rendered
> as HTML.
> 
> So StructuredText IS markup but it complements YAML well I think.  I know
> there was an effort to get StructuredText standardized for Python docstrings
> and it appears to have continued into reStructuredText.
> 
> The nice thing is that StructuredText could likely be used quite simply with
> PyYaml.  I have long wanted to tie in a Wiki markup into Yod.  If StructuredText
> parsers were avilable for Ruby I would likely use it.

Sounds like a good use for a YAML transfer:

    ---
    stuff: !structured-text |
    blah
     * blah
     * blah

hmm. With the YAML type repository we can really start opening up the doors
to supporting many standard data types in many domains. !xml, !html, etc.
Loader/Dumper implementations are encouraged to implement as many as they
can, but none of them are strictly required.

I'm liking this more and more.

Cheers, Brian