I would like to store HTML snippets inside a YAML file. What is the best way to do that?
Something like:
myhtml: |
<div>
<a href="#">whatever</a>
</div>
Example
Here is a sample record from a YAML-based snippet management system I created years ago:
- caption: fieldset msie5
tinycap: fieldset
domain: html
desc: fieldset and legend tag
wwbody: |
<fieldset>
<legend>legend</legend>
</fieldset>
You can repeat that or something like it for all the snippets you want to manage. This particular system stores the snippets as an array of name-value pairs (Perl people would call this an AoH). If you do not need all this extra information, just two name-value pairs will suffice (e.g., caption + body).
The nice thing about this system: YAML indentation prevents "delimiter collision" problems. You never have to use clumsy escape sequences inside your snippet body.
Text Editor or IDE alternative
Note: Increasingly, text editors and IDEs support flexible snippet management options natively, so you may want to consider using the format of a text editor rather than re-inventing your own. If you do re-invent your own, you can write a script to translate your YAML format into the native format of a text editor if you later decide you want to do that.
See also:
Use templates. We probably shan t mix to put HTML in .po files or in the data layer since escape and double escape (JavaScript escape) rather keep distinct presentation (view) and persistence (storage) layers. HTML is presentation and view, hence belongs to the presentation layer.
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