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

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

Brian Ingerson [mailto:in...@tt...] 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