JSON besides YAML

[georgjaehnig]

JSON besides YAML

[georgjaehnig]

Would be possible – just curious: why you would need it?

[vinipsmaker]

just curious: why you would need it?

I can't understand YAML. Tried many times already.

[georgjaehnig]

You mean, you don't know how to edit it?

[vinipsmaker]

I don't know how to write YAML. I always copy'n'paste an example and change stuff to suit my needs.

Every time I try to really study the format, it looks easy on the first rules, but the rules escalate pretty quickly and the understanding on my head gets all messed up. JSON has a pretty small and understandable set of rules that you can hold in your head all at once. That doesn't happen with YAML.

[georgjaehnig]

Well, the data structure in the definitions is very simply, it's not going deep at all. I know that YAML has some weird rules e.g. for multi-line strings but there are none of these in the definition files.

Have a look at https://github.com/georgjaehnig/webpages-to-ebook/blob/master/definitions/paulgraham.yml

[sukiletxe]

Also, if I remember correctly, json is also valid yaml (except probably comments).

[georgjaehnig]

Yup, seems so:

making YAML 1.2 a superset of JSON.

So you simply write JSON into the YAML files.

I'm closing this.