[Yaml-core] Now it's using YAML for metadata in text-files

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Hello all

(for Steve) I have read your announcement at YAML-core. I'd 
greatly appreciate if you resent me the new version 
(attachments do not seem directly accesible via geocrawler. 
I am subscribing to the list right now, in order not to 
bother you again with these things and follow more closely 
development). 

I copy my suggestion (I mailed it to Steve via private mail)

  > I have a suggestion to make. Now you use a pointer-like
  > syntax for the links: what about mimifying an arrow
  > through "->"?. It would be, perhaps, more readable
  > and/or intuitive for the casual reader.

It's all about usability for the non hackers.

I asked a few days ago about YAML as a wiki language. Well, 
the mixed content is necessary, as Clark pointed out. But I 
am going to find an utility to YAML after all ;)!.

We have an electronic library project. We want to associate 
meta-data to our documents, but need to do it in a 
format-independent fashion. We were thinking of using XML, 
but now (and especially with the python parser 
advancements) we have decided to give a try at YAML. I 
enclose a copy of a prototype file, just for you to see. If 
it's valid/correct you could think about using it as a 
lengthy example for the examples section. It's very 
rudimentary, I know, and we don't still know how to use 
most of the features, so please, any comments will be most 
welcome. 

Well, that's it all for today,

cheers,

álvaro 


---YAML:1.0

document:
 title:Ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias
 short: EDO
 language: es
 publisher: alqua
 base_url: http://www.alqua.com/fdl
 license: GNU GFDL 1.2

thanks: \
 Agradecemos su trabajo a
 Lorenzo Abellanas Rapún,
 por intentarlo todo.

authors:
 - name: &ATC Álvaro Tejero Cantero
   mailto: al...@an...
   http: alqua.com/alvaro
   
 - name: &PRM Pablo Ruiz Múzquiz
   mailto: pab...@gn...
   http: eutherpe.org

subject:
 udc: 517.91
 keywords:
  - ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias
  - sistemas dinámicos
  - mapas de fases
  - funciones especiales
  - desarrollos en serie de potencias

 description: \
  Contiene un curso clásico de introducción a
  las ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias, aportando
  métodos de solución para sistemas lineales y métodos
  cualitativos para sistemas no lineales. Contiene
  ejercicios resueltos.

# gen debería ser una url de alqua, con
# la especificación de la gen correspondiente.
# como la url del dtd en xml.

releases:
 - number: 0.0
   gen:    0
   date:   1999-10-04
   description: \
    Comienzo de la creación
    del documento a partir de la estructura
    del curso de ecuaciones diferenciales
    ordinarias impartida por Lorenzo Abellanas Rapún
    en la facultad de Física de la UCM
    entre 1999-09 y 2000-02
     
 - number: 1.01
   gen: 0
   date: 2000-04-10
   description: Primera publicación capítulos 1-4
      
 - number: 1.02
   gen: 0
   date: 2000-06-05
   description:
    - \ 
      numerosas correcciones de presentación
      (pies de las figuras, ejemplos), *ATC.
    - Eliminadas lista de figuras y de tablas.

 - number: 1.03
   gen: 0
   date: 2001-01-11
   description: \
    Revisiones menores por parte
    de *PRM en los capítulos 1,2,4.

units:
 - name: custom-definitions
   type: preamble
   format: tex

 - name: general-macros
   type: macros
   format: lyx

 - name: Sistemas de ecuaciones lineales
   type: chapter
   short: Sistemas lineales
   format: lyx

 - name: Sistemas dinámicos
   type: chapter
   format: lyx

 - name: Soluciones por medio de series
   short: Series
   type: chapter
   format: lyx

 - name: Ejercicios y problemas
   short: Problemas
   format: lyx
   type: appendix
      
---#;) 
signature:
 name: álvaro.tejero.cantero
 where: 
   url: alqua.com
   motto: la red en estudio