Dear all, I agree with Marco, Yaml serialization/deserialization would be a big plus. I am currently using a great datawarehouse transformation tool that makes heavy use of yaml for configuration and documentation (dbt<http://www.getdbt.com>), and as a BaseX's old friend, I naturally use XQuery to process these yaml files, but it requires a call to a unix command line tool in order to transform to json first. And thank you for the summer edition ! Best regards from french west coast, Fabrice ________________________________ De : BaseX-Talk <basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> de la part de Marco Lettere <m.lettere@gmail.com> Envoyé : mercredi 12 août 2020 12:04 À : BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Objet : [basex-talk] Yaml serialization Dear BaseX team, just out of curiosity, could you imagine what kind of effort it would be to provide YAML as another serialization method for BaseX in addition to XML, HTML, JSON, CSV? The datamodel seems pretty close to the JSON one so maybe a very similar transformation to XML could be implemented ... Ciao, Marco.