RE: [Yaml-core] Modeling "mixed" content of XML using YAML

[Oren Ben-K. <or...@ri...>]

Brian Ingerson [mailto:in...@tt...] wrote:
> What *I* was proposing was a _shortcut_. Merely eliminating 
> some excess
> whitespace. And it acheived Oren's goal, but was not limited to his
> goal. In addition, this can be delayed under our current spec AFAICS.

Right on both counts.

> What *you* are proposing is a _change_ in syntax, with new indicators,
> etc. I'm not willing to go there.

I agree.

Now, speaking of new indicators... I thought about the "format" business
some more.

The way I see it we have two self-consistent options.

Either we go for broke and define a new indicator for format (% leaps to
mind): "!type %format", and accept that sometime just the format may be
specified without a type (a problematic issue);

Or we decide that type and format are both parts
of the same "transfer" property and use "!type!format". This way a format
may only be specified if there is a type.

I dislike ':' - it doesn't look good and is an awkward half-breed between a
separate property and a part of the transfer property.

I think that using "!type!format" is our best bet. It doesn't introduce a
new indicator, and it does everything we need.

Thoughts?

	Oren Ben-Kiki