YAML: Probably not so great after all

Re:YAML: Probably not so great after all by twic on Sunday August 18, 2019 @06:32PM (#20733375)

Particularly annoying is that there's no way to do lists with attributes. Looks good:

  <user name="alice" group="wheel" />

Oh no:

  <user name="alice" groups="wheel admin sudoers" />

Or is it one of:

  <user name="alice" groups="wheel,admin,sudoers" />
  <user name="alice" groups="wheel:admin:sudoers" />
  <user name="alice" groups="wheel;admin;sudoers" />

Or give up and use elements:

  <user name="alice">
    <group>wheel</group>
    <group>admin</group>
    <group>sudoers</group>
  </user>

Hold on, should there be a container?

  <user name="alice">
    <groups>
      <group>wheel</group>
      <group>admin</group>
      <group>sudoers</group>
    </groups>
  </user>

XML really needs either richer attributes, or no attributes.

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Re:YAML: Probably not so great after all by Ooolin on Sunday August 18, 2019 @10:30PM (#20734440)

Replace with "Element" with "Class" and "Attribute" with "Property" in your examples.

It's your job to decide how the data should be structured, in any language.

I would do the following :

  <user name="alice">
    <groups>
      <group uid="wheel"/>
      <group uid="admin"/>
      <group uid="sudoers"/>
    </groups>
  </user>

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