doc/plugins/contrib/ymlfront/discussion.mdwn



Now that I have implemented a [[!ymlfront ...]] directive, I would like to remove support for the old "---" delimited format, because

it is fragile (easily breakable)
it is non-standard

Any objections?

Well, I don't have much standing since I have been too lame to integrate
ymlfront into ikiwiki yet. Buy, my opinion is, I liked the old
format of putting the YAML literally at the front of the file. It
seemed to allow parsing the file as YAML, using any arbitrary YAML
processer. And it was nice how it avoided boilerplate. --[[Joey]]


The old delimited format also has the advantage of being remarkably similar to the
MultiMarkDown
way of including metadata in documents. The only difference is that MMD doesn't expect the
triple-dash separators, but I'm thinking about submitting a patch to MMD to actually support
that syntax. --GB