Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > YAML looks very clean. A lot cleaner than the corresponding XML. Very > interesting. > > It looks like there is also an open source parser for YAML written in Java: > > http://jyaml.sourceforge.net/ > > What do you think Martin? Is YAML a better option than GML? > > Well, it all depends what your metrics are - and *that* is a question with likely no clear answer!
I think I'm keen on pursuing the Super-Simple GML route. That has the best chance of being readable by other tools, I think. Jody Garnett made a suggestion about putting the XML Schema for the GML Simple Features Profile in-line in the data file. (This is what JML does now, actually). I have two concerns about this: - I haven't seen anything that says that inline schema is standard, or can be processed by the tools that you might want to read it (such as XML authoring tools, or OGR) - even the GML SFP is waaay complex, with a fair bit of variability lurking to confuse parsers. However, I think it might be worth prototyping this idea. It should be possible to *totally* constrain the representation of the SFP schema, so that parsers didn't really have to understand it, just extract the few pieces of relevant information from known spots. I might try and spec this out & work up an example, and post it on a Google docs page for all to see... Martin -- Martin Davis Senior Technical Architect Refractions Research, Inc. (250) 383-3022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
