Re: Suggestion: Using script output - Human-readable and machine-parseable

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 03:23:50PM -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:35:29AM -0500, Daniel Miller wrote:
> > I'm attaching a patch that allows for formatting output as YAML.
>
> For these reasons, I wonder if it would be better to create a general
> results formatting function which takes a Lua table of results and
> creates both XML and normal output from that?  For normal output, it
> would do things like add the indenting and might ignore the labels in
> some or all cases.  For XML, it would use the labels as attributes in
> XML tags providing the data.  There would probably be an XML element
> containing the user-formatted string results too (as there is now).

For what it's worth, I don't propose that YAML text should be output in
the XML. Instead, the underlying structure would be converted to XML
elements. When I said "tag" the output as YAML, I meant internally, not
in a user-visible way. The output routines would convert the underlying
structure to text for normal output and XML elements for XML output. A
script could conceivably output different information in either form.

David Fifield
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