From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: 2005-03-27T03:16:47+09:00
Subject: Re: convert YAML to HTML?

On Mar 26, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Phlip wrote:

> Phlip wrote:
>
>> This has to have been on the YAML thought leader's Do List.
>>
>> Is there a library, or a snippet, out there that converts YAML to
> esthetic,
>> meaningful XHTML?
>>
>> I don't want to load the document into Ruby variables then stream them
> with
>> RedCloth because I'd lose the comments.
>>
>> Can I load the comments, too, and stream everything?
>
> Here's JB's Syntax module:
>
> http://jamisbuck.org/jamis/blog.cgi/programming/ruby/ 
> Syntax%200.7_20050323235420.tx
>
> Here's a sample output:
>
> <span class="punct">-</span> [ formatWiki, this is ''em''phatic text,  
> this
> is &lt;em&gt;em&lt;/em&gt;phatic text       ]
>
> That's not cute enough. It's essentially a syntax highlighter for  
> YAML. (And
> as such, it missed the [] tags and lexically significant commas , .)

Yes, it is not a complete YAML parser. A patch would be more than  
welcome, though. If you (or anyone else) improves an existing lexer or  
adds a new one, I would love to add your changes to the Syntax lib.

- Jamis