Re: [Yaml-core] Any way to avoid the "alpha" designation?

[Clark C. E. <cc...@cl...>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:28:18PM -0700, Peter Wolfenden wrote:
| I'd like to use YAML as a persistence mechanism for an
| internal project that I'm working on, but since this
| project may one day be used in a production environment
| I can guarantee that my boss won't go for any software
| (open or proprietary) that bears the label "alpha". And
| INGY's YAML-0.35 module (over a year old at this point)
| is advertised as alpha code.

I use _why's Syck module in production.  

| As far as I can tell, the YAML 1.0 specification isn't
| even finalized, yet (the working draft on www.yaml.org
| is dated March 15, 2003)

This weekend I'll be working on making it a release canidate,
we really expect very very little change now.

| Does anyone on this list have any recommendations, or
| will I have to (shudder) go with an XML-based solution?

I use XML as well (so I can use XSLT->HTML transformations),
I do this mostly with the rules outlined at:
   http://yaml.org/xml.html

In short, if you have a sequence, items in the sequence
use an underscore.   It would be trivial to write 
XML<->YAML transformation using these rules.