From: Ingy d. N. <in...@in...> - 2009-04-14 08:28:33
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On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:15 AM, <78...@de...> wrote: > Ingy you're wrong and avoided answering my question. > Honestly, 7845330, I've been trying to be helpful, but I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish. You started the thread by saying: "The block literal string scalar needs what every other data format has - a length header." Obviously, XML and JSON have no length header facility. To be fair, you did not answer my questions: * Why must you avoid indentation? * Which, specifically, data formats are you referring to? > * XML and JSON both have terminators - XML closing tags, JSON closing > braces. YAML has indentation. I was referring to line-count or byte-count which is what you were talking about in the prior 2 paragraphs. > * A human editing a critical part of any YAML file can make it invalid; > same with any other format. I meant that something like byte count is inherently fragile and non obvious for human editing, > * YAML isn't the only anything; I've seen dozens of hand-crafted, > in-house formats like it. > > Please just answer the question: With existing YAML, is it viable to > use two YAML documents inside the file, to avoid block literal > indentation? > If it's hard to believe such needs exist, suffice to say that I have > them. "It's a big world out there." The answer is a straight yes/no. > The word "viable" is subjective, and subjective questions are usually not a straight yes/no. However, since the second of your two example YAML documents is invalid, I'll risk the straight answer: No. The explanation is that even a top level literal block requires indentation. -Ingy > > Thank you. > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: > http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. > Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com > _______________________________________________ > Yaml-core mailing list > Yam...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yaml-core > |