Non Sucking YAML parser

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:59:25PM +0000, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On Sep 19, 2006, at 13:49, David Cantrell wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:30:32PM +0000, Robin Berjon wrote:
> >>On Sep 18, 2006, at 13:27, David Cantrell wrote:
> >>>with this has to know that <person><title>...</title></person> is
> >>>different from <book><title>...</title></book> and deal with the two
> >>>titles appropriately.
> >>Have you bothered reading my previous email on the topic?
> >Yes.  Either you didn't explain yourself very well or I didn't
> >understand.
> Any specifics? From what you just said above, you seem to be making  
> the argument that at the cost of massive amounts of extra verbosity,  
> you can do away with namespaces.

Huh?  How is this:

<person>
  <title>Mr</title>
  <surname>Cantrell</surname>
  <givenname>David</givenname>
  ...
</person>
etc

massively more verbose than using namespaces?  In fact, it *is*
namespaces - at least in the generic sense even if it lacks the
punctuation to satisfy XML - just without the extra syntax. That means
that it's easier to write the software to parse the file correctly,
and easier to edit the file by hand too.  Sounds like a win all round.

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