Re: [Yaml-core] Fw: Fwd: Config with properties

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

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:56:38PM -0800, Neil Watkiss wrote:
| I use YAML a lot at work, and the only (real) complaint I have is that the
| YAML spec didn't make it a requirement for the #YAML:xxx tag to change with
| each release of the spec, before we settle down to an approved 1.0 status. 

Yes, this has been a problem.  My apologies.  I think we are very
close to a final version, do we want to call it 1.1?

| When we declare the spec frozen (really frozen) we should endorse 
| a version number.


| Let's be fair: XML is pretty as long as you _make_ it so.

Unfortunately, pretty printing is not simple in XML.  These
two documents below have a very different DOM representation
   <root><hello>world!</hello></root>
and
   <root>
       <hello>world!</hello>
   </root>
The latter has introduced two additional text nodes
and thus root has 3 children instead of one.  This is why
the "machine produced" XML always looks awful.  If it 
pretty-printed the XML, it would be changing the DOM 
structure of the document.

| Leading me to my belief that XML is really a binary protocol. If you can't
| read it, it isn't text. (I can't wait for YAML-RPC to take off. A colleague
| of mine showed me an example of it working, but there are only two clients in
| the world :)

;) Clark