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YAML Scenario Files #8

Open modgeosys opened 7 years ago

modgeosys commented 7 years ago

Consider supporting YAML scenario files for more concise expression (long-term, low-priority).

ogayte commented 7 years ago

I see three interesting advantages to XML:

FME is able to parse it easily
The use of a xsd application schema allows one to check the syntax of the scenario file
The use of the xml entities syntax is a convenient trick to use variable like definition. I have never used YAML. Do you think that language could provide such functions?

modgeosys commented 7 years ago

There are Python tools to do all of those things. They may not be mature enough yet, but they probably will be before too long. Again, this is more like a long-term suggestion for the "back burner", nothing critical. Eventually I might implement it myself as an option (i.e., XML/XSD will still be the default).