Matthew Desmarais wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 12:14 +0900, James Britt wrote:
> 
>>Matthew Desmarais wrote:
>>
>>>Have you given any thought to using YAML instead of  XML?
>>>
>>
>>Why not not just use Ruby to describe the data?
> 
> 
> YAML buys you a small amount of language independence.  I've chosen YAML
> before because I like how well it plays with Ruby.  I've been _able_ to
> choose YAML because of how well it plays with other languages.
> 

Perhaps, though more and more I run into YAML files with custom 
object-specific serializations (e.g. the YAML files used in Ruby's ri 
system); XML tends to do better on that count, with far less coupling of 
data and types.

Still, if one is using WATIR, then I suspect that cross-language 
configuration is not an concern.  (And if becomes a requirement, then 
the Ruby used to defined the tests can be exported as XML or YAML or 
whatever works best.)


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