[KinoSearch] Serialized Schema

[Peter Karman]

Marvin Humphrey wrote on 9/29/07 5:32 PM:
> 
> On Sep 6, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Peter Karman wrote:
> 
>> (And re: the url thread above: for the record, I like the .yml format 
>> better than .xml; if libswish3 weren't already possessed of a full XML 
>> parser, I would probably use .yml in Swish3 too.)
> 
> Have you considered JSON? :)
> 
> I'm annoyed by the fact that there isn't a minimal "YAML level 1" spec.  
> The complete YAML spec is grievously afflicted by featuritis.
> 
> Here's the problem: right now, KS uses custom routines to read/write a 
> small subset of YAML.  But if other implementations start using the file 
> format, it will be easy for them to produce something that's valid YAML 
> but that KS isn't prepared to handle.
> 

Sounds like what you want isn't an official subset of the language, but rather 
something like a SGML document type definition (called (overload overload) a 
schema in XML parlance). Just an official declaration of what constitutes a 
legal KS header. When you write a sentence in English, you need a subject and a 
predicate. Otherwise it isn't a sentence. You don't have to define a subset of 
English to compose a sentence. But you do need to meet certain requirements.

Maybe the analogy is that the KS header supports the 'simple sentence'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_%28linguistics%29

-- 
Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  peter at peknet.com

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