While working with Maven, I've found a maven-yamlpom-plugin, which allows to edit the pom.xml as pom.yml, by converting one to the other and keeping them in sync. The problem with the plugin is it's buggy and rearranges lines, drops all comments, and can't sync when times match, such as after a git pull.
While thinking about it, it occurred to me that what matters when working with such hairy XML in YAML is that YAML is a human-readable form of XML. It's not really necessary to keep a pom.yml -- I only edit it in TextMate anyways. What's really needed is an XML *editing* mode... in YAML!
Is it possible to have an XML mode where XML will be converted to YAML upon loading, then dumped back as XML?
Cheers, Alexy
On 01/11/2009, at 3:57 PM, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
While working with Maven, I've found a maven-yamlpom-plugin, which allows to edit the pom.xml as pom.yml, by converting one to the other and keeping them in sync. The problem with the plugin is it's buggy and rearranges lines, drops all comments, and can't sync when times match, such as after a git pull.
While thinking about it, it occurred to me that what matters when working with such hairy XML in YAML is that YAML is a human-readable form of XML. It's not really necessary to keep a pom.yml -- I only edit it in TextMate anyways. What's really needed is an XML *editing* mode... in YAML!
Is it possible to have an XML mode where XML will be converted to YAML upon loading, then dumped back as XML?
This is currently not possible in an elegant way.
It will be possible in future versions of TM2, based on discussions I have had with Alan along these lines.
BTW, there is a Maven bundle @ http://github.com/alkemist/Maven.tmbundle
On 1 Nov 2009, at 06:57, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
[...] Is it possible to have an XML mode where XML will be converted to YAML upon loading, then dumped back as XML?
As Luke revealed, it is something that will be supported in the future, for now though you can make a wrapper around ‘mate -w’ to convert input/output and initiate your edits via that wrapper (could setup a bundle command to call it).
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