[development] Generate Drupal code from (textfile) specs

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Oct 29 16:37:20 UTC 2007


Quoting Matt Farina <matt at mattfarina.com>:

> Why not YAML?
>
> One reason is readability.
>

I find this just as readable as

> Compare:
> <user id="babooey" on="cpu1">
>        <firstname>Bob</firstname>
>        <lastname>Abooey</lastname>
>        <department>adv</department>
>        <cell>555-1212</cell>
>        <address password="xxxx">ahunter at example1.com</address>
>        <address password="xxxx">babooey at example2.com</address>
> </user>
>

this with advantage that I know when the data ends for user and the 
advantage that PHP can parse it without extra modules.

> To:
> babooey:
>       computer: cpu1
>       firstname: Bob
>       lastname: Abooey
>       cell: 555-1212
>       addresses:
>           - address: babooey at example1.com
>             password: xxxx
>           - address: babooey at example2.com
>             password: xxxx
>
> Matt
>

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