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    • Strictyaml
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      • What YAML features does StrictYAML remove?
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      • When should I use a validator and when should I not?
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          • Compound
            • Fixed length sequences (FixedSeq)
            • Mappings combining defined and undefined keys (MapCombined)
            • Mappings with arbitrary key names (MapPattern)
            • Mapping with defined keys and a custom key validator (Map)
            • Using a YAML object of a parsed mapping
            • Mappings with defined keys (Map)
            • Optional keys with defaults (Map/Optional)
            • Validating optional keys in mappings (Map)
            • Sequences of unique items (UniqueSeq)
            • Sequence/list validator (Seq)
            • Updating document with a schema
          • Howto
            • Build a YAML document from scratch in code
            • Either/or schema validation of different, equally valid different kinds of YAML
            • Labeling exceptions
            • Merge YAML documents
            • Revalidate an already validated document
            • Reading in YAML, editing it and writing it back out
            • Get line numbers of YAML elements
            • Parsing YAML without a schema
          • Restrictions
            • Disallowed YAML
            • Duplicate keys
            • Dirty load
          • Scalar
            • Boolean (Bool)
            • Parsing comma separated items (CommaSeparated)
            • Datetimes (Datetime)
            • Decimal numbers (Decimal)
            • Email and URL validators
            • Empty key validation
            • Enumerated scalars (Enum)
            • Floating point numbers (Float)
            • Hexadecimal Integers (HexInt)
            • Integers (Int)
            • Validating strings with regexes (Regex)
            • Parsing strings (Str)
      • Why
        • What is wrong with duplicate keys?
        • What is wrong with explicit tags?
        • What is wrong with flow-style YAML?
        • The Norway Problem - why StrictYAML refuses to do implicit typing and so should you
        • What is wrong with node anchors and references?
        • Why does StrictYAML not parse direct representations of Python objects?
        • Why does StrictYAML only parse from strings and not files?
        • Why is parsing speed not a high priority for StrictYAML?
        • What is syntax typing?
        • Why does StrictYAML make you define a schema in Python - a Turing-complete language?
      • Why not
        • Why avoid using environment variables as configuration?
        • Why not use HJSON?
        • Why not HOCON?
        • Why not use INI files?
        • Why not use JSON Schema for validation?
        • Why not JSON for simple configuration files?
        • Why not JSON5?
        • Why not use the YAML 1.2 standard? - we don't need a new standard!
        • Why not use kwalify with standard YAML to validate my YAML?
        • Why not use Python's schema library (or similar) for validation?
        • Why not use SDLang?
        • What is wrong with TOML?
        • Why shouldn't I just use Python code for configuration?
        • Why not use XML for configuration or DSLs?

    Compound StrictYAML Validators

    • Fixed length sequences (FixedSeq)
    • Mappings combining defined and undefined keys (MapCombined)
    • Mappings with arbitrary key names (MapPattern)
    • Mapping with defined keys and a custom key validator (Map)
    • Using a YAML object of a parsed mapping
    • Mappings with defined keys (Map)
    • Optional keys with defaults (Map/Optional)
    • Validating optional keys in mappings (Map)
    • Sequences of unique items (UniqueSeq)
    • Sequence/list validator (Seq)
    • Updating document with a schema
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