Bug #17416 for YAML-Yaml2Html: wish: support for tables

Wed Feb 01 10:34:49 2006 Guest - Ticket created

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wish: support for tables

Thanks for this module. It appeals to me as someone who would like to write a compact notation in my text editor and produce HTML pages. I'd like to see support for HTML tables added. It seems at a minimum this means adding a notation which means "This YAML structure is an HTML table" and possibly one which means "this is a header row". As long as the result serializes into an array of arrays, or array of hashrefs, it seems it should work out. Here's an example structure I have in mind: - name: Player Name hr: Home Runs avg: Average - name: Mark McGwire hr: 65 avg: 0.278 - name: Sammy Sosa hr: 63 avg: 0.288 Then, one of the existing tools to serialize YAML to Perl could be used, and the table could be produced readily with HTML::Table. http://search.cpan.org/~ajpeacock/HTML-Table-2.04a/Table.pm Mark

Wed Feb 01 12:26:33 2006 Guest - Correspondence added

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mark [...] summersault.com

The basics did turn out to be easy. (example below). A simple "table:" key could be added to denote the start of a table, and maybe "_is_header" could be a key to denote a header row. #!/usr/bin/perl use YAML::Syck; use HTML::Table; use strict; my $data = Load(q# - name: Mark age: 29 - name: Hopi age: 27 #); HTML::Table->new([map { [values %$_] } @$data ])->print;

Wed Feb 01 12:26:35 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'