> example, YAML has 6 fucking ways <https://stackoverflow.com/a/21699210>
actually 9 (see the comments) :) and i actually like it because i can
easily choose one of this way to serialize another content in a yaml.
i also love yaml because:
* it feels natural to read and edit to me
* it has references, datatypes, overwritting features
so whenever i have to edit datastructures that are not easy to serialize
with simple formats, yaml is my prefered format.
> Pug/Jade is a templating engine for HTML documents. It doesn't generate
> XML—the example you gave produces
>
> <doc><title>My stupid document</title><enabled/></doc>
of course it does
doc
title My strupid document
enabled/
doc
title My strupid document
enabled/
> … which is neither valid HTML nor XML. It *would* be valid XML if it
> included the mandatory <?xml …?> directive;
so you can add it
doctype xml
doc
title My strupid document
enabled/
you can also add any arbitrary string anywere in the source
|<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
doc
title My strupid document
enabled/
> In any case, Pug is simply one of *many* tools that provide syntactic sugar
> for HTML.
not that many achieved to let me:
* do whatever i need/want
* feel happy about editing the content
the only sad thing to me is that they added templating which makes
things harder to port and is not related to the initial goal which
is "a decent syntax for xml/html".
to me pug is a tool to *generate* templates so you can write
< my-stupid-page.pug| my-template-engine-of-choice > index.html
in the mkfile of my site, i have
template.%: %.pug
$PUG < $prereq > $target
pub/atom.xml: template.atom news.yaml
pandoc -f markdown --template ./template.atom news.yaml > $target
pub/%.html: %.md template.html
pandoc --template ./template.html -o $target $prereq(1)
regards
marc
