RE: [Yaml-core] Progress

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

Clark C . Evans [mailto:cc...@cl...] wrote:
> Oren this is beautyful.

Blush :-)

> I've given it a decent review (although 
> not complete) and there is only one problem.  The last example
> block needs to be cleaned up some.  It's at yaml.org/oren-19.html
> I'll be merging it with what I have promptly.

Oops, I missed that one. Sorry. Attached is a corrected version. All the
examples probably need some serious polishing...

> | map:
> |  - key1: value
> |  - key2: \
> |   long value
> |  - key3:
> |   nested: map
> 
> One minor problem, time.  If we wanted to do this, we need
> to quote time.

Nope:

series:
 - key1: value
 - 14:30
 - the above is a time
 - 14: 30
 - the above is a map.

I think that's acceptable. You already have this problem in:

Here: { 14:30: 12:30 }

Anyway. The rule about ':' and '-' is clear: they are indicators only if
followed by a white space or a line break.

BTW I looked in the productions and it doesn't require any new productions,
just a small change to three productions  (97, 102, 103). I included the
change in the attached version. See if you like it.

> I'm still do not completely understand the XML to YAML
> conversion you are proposing here.  Certainly it is
> important... 

You are right, it was only half baked; it won't work well in the presence of
attributes. I doubt there's a good solution (except, of course, for using
the color idiom).

I still think allowing the above syntax would prove useful for XML mappings,
however, because XML's natural construct is the "ordered list of named
maps".

Have fun,

	Oren Ben-Kiki