Re: [Yaml-core] Request for YAC: DOMAIN directive

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

On 24/12/01 21:28 +0200, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
> Brian Ingerson [mailto:in...@tt...] 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