ymlfront vs MMD

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / plugins / contrib / ymlfront / discussion.mdwn

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@@ -4,3 +4,15 @@ Now that I have implemented a \[[!ymlfront ...]] directive, I would like to remo
 * 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](http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/users_guide/multimarkdown_syntax_guide/)
+>> 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