From: Oren Ben-K. <or...@ri...> - 2002-09-01 09:03:27
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Hi guys, I've put all the latest into a new draft and changed its status to "Last Call" as we've discussed. I hope Clark will be able to put it up on the site. Please give this a look and see that you are OK with it. The list of changes from the 10 July 2002 draft is: Status : > Was changed to "Last Call". At long last. Implicit strings : > May begin with a '/' to allow paths to be unquoted. Removed the // special keys. : > They conflict with the new implicit string format. What to replace them with, if anything, is still TBD. Example fixes : > Minor nits were wrong in some examples (4.3.1, 4.6.4, 4.6.5, 4.6.7). Renamed 'public' type families to 'global' : > This better conveys the intent. Separated changes : > As of this draft, changes are in a separated document. Repaginated draft : > The previous pagination was nice but it was very wasteful of pages. In the spirit of keeping the spec small, page breaks were moved, reducing the printed size by 10 pages or so. About the changes; what I have in mind is that we'll have a single "change history" document that will be referred to from all following drafts; I'll just add sections to it as new drafts are released (hopefully there would be very few additional ones). Then we can just remove the reference to it from the final spec. Combined with the new pagination (tested in both A4 and Letter), the size of the printed draft is 62 pages. This compares very favorably with XML's 77 pages: Syntax & overview: XML 1.0 (2nd edition): 55 pages YAML (sections 1,2,4): 41 pages Global naming: XML Namespaces: 11 pages YAML (sections 2.4, 4.3.5): 5 pages (in above) Information set: XML Information set: 11 pages YAML (section 3): 11 pages Core types: XML: Not available # Unless one counts SOAP :-) YAML (section 5): 10 pages Total: XML (thee separate specs): 77 YAML (one spec): 62 I hope this settles, once and for all, the issue of the YAML spec size compared to XML. Have fun, Oren Ben-Kiki |
From: why t. l. s. <yam...@li...> - 2002-09-03 00:41:16
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Oren Ben-Kiki (or...@ri...) wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've put all the latest into a new draft and changed its status to "Last > Call" as we've discussed. I hope Clark will be able to put it up on the > site. Please give this a look and see that you are OK with it. Good to see that we're getting the Last Call up. Hopefully we can spread the news like crazy to get some further participation as we head toward 1.0. Nice work, Oren. _why |