Remark: support for a roundtrip-able XML representation of YAML would consolidate BaseX's great position as a data integration platform, further increasing the number of continents (mediatypes) which can be travelled on the highway of XPath (XML, JSON, CSV, HTML, YAML).

In comparison, I think, YAML representation of arbitrary XML would be a nicety without strategic significance.

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Am Mittwoch, 12. August 2020, 18:38:10 MESZ hat Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> Folgendes geschrieben:

I was wondering if you can successfully serialize any arbitrary XML document to a YAML representing, ideally without losing information (attributes, comments, etc.), and convert the result back to the original XML representation.

I would guess that YAML to XML conversions is easier.

Apart from that, it would surely be possible to write a little XQuery module that performs all the conversions (just a matter of time?).

Marco Lettere <m.lettere@gmail.com> schrieb am Mi., 12. Aug. 2020, 18:31:

> @Marco: Do you know which conversions are provided by FasterXML:
> arbitrary XML → YAML, arbitrary YAML → XML, or both? If the underlying
> conversion rules are promising, we could include them a 'fasterxml'
> format in BaseX (similar to the 'jsonml' format).
>
As far as I can understand from the docs and the code on github there
Jackson is a sort of hub with several dataformat modules which are able
to parse and serialize from the various formats.

I don't know whether, with the term arbitrary, you mean to be able to
provide your own syntax for the XML serialization. In this case I am not
sure.

M.