RE: [Yaml-core] Canonical YAML?

[Robin G. <gr...@pr...>]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
> Hmmm. While I realize why you'd want this to be weak - for your use
> cases - it is _so_ tempting to also define a strong canonical format!
> And so _easy_, too:
>
> The "strong" canonical format adds just two tiny rules:
>
> - No empty tags.
> - Use the canonical string representation of each scalar.
>
> See how easy it is? :-)

Good point! I like it!

> If you want, I'll send you the yod2html tool I'm using to convert the
> YAML sources of the spec to HTML. It would allow us to have a consistent
> look-and-feel for YAML specs.

OK, do so! Consistency is good. Or, I should say, needless inconsistency
is bad.

-- 
Robin