Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 07:53:37 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML Message-ID: <20140728055336.GJ50802@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20140728054217.AC1A0580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> References: <20140725044921.9F0D3580A2@chaos.jnpr.net> <CAETOPp13H7kyLy-1VJRDOsDbOh8A1MWZDxw1xHUBsxTRtMfc7g@mail.gmail.com> <20140728054217.AC1A0580A2@chaos.jnpr.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:42:17PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:29:04 -0700, Jos Backus writes: > >It's a little sad to see that the more human-friendly and expressive YAML > >format appears to not be supported. Instead, here too we are stuck with > > Is there a use case for something like vmstat outputting YAML? > It is a simple format, I guess it could be added, especially if it has > no format quirks worse that HTML and JSON. > Note: I'm just speculating. YAML is all but a simple format, creating a subset of YAML that is good enough is a simple format :), exporting a complete YAML (strongly typed etc) is something else. As machine readable format YAML is a nightmare to parse, JSON is very simpler and easier (while json being a valid subject of YAML). regards, Bapt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlPV5WAACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EyfugCfWrlwpOwBZjZ/jCgEz5k2qm1V RjAAnA9RdYqV7tewWGMoiKbmyc1I/r9c =MAOM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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