YAML ellipses rule

.vale/fixtures/RedHat/YamlEllipses/.vale.ini

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+; Vale configuration file to test the `YamlEllipses` rule
+StylesPath = ../../../styles
+MinAlertLevel = suggestion
+[*.adoc]
+RedHat.YamlEllipses = YES

.vale/fixtures/RedHat/YamlEllipses/testinvalid.adoc

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+[source,yaml]
+----
+...
+  ...
+    ...
+----

.vale/fixtures/RedHat/YamlEllipses/testvalid.adoc

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+[source,yaml]
+----
+# ...
+  # ...
+# This is an ordinary comment
+----
+
+...
+

.vale/styles/RedHat/YamlEllipses.yml

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+---
+extends: script
+level: suggestion
+message: "Use '# ...' instead of '...' in YAML code blocks."
+link: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#22-structures
+scope: raw
+script: |
+  text := import("text")
+  matches := []
+
+  // clean out multi-line comments
+  scope = text.re_replace("(?s) *(\n////.*?////\n)", scope, "")
+  //add a newline, it might be missing
+  scope += "\n"
+
+  codeblock_delim_regex := "^-{4,}$"
+  comment_ellipsis := "^# \\.{3}$"
+  reg_ellipsis := "^\\s*\\.{3}$"
+  inside_codeblock := false
+
+  for line in text.split(scope, "\n") {
+    // trim trailing whitespace
+    line = text.trim_space(line)
+    //ignore content in codeblocks
+    if text.re_match(codeblock_delim_regex, line) && inside_codeblock == false {
+      inside_codeblock = true
+    } else if text.re_match(codeblock_delim_regex, line) && inside_codeblock == true {
+      inside_codeblock = false
+    }
+    if !text.re_match(comment_ellipsis, line) && text.re_match(reg_ellipsis, line) && inside_codeblock == true {
+      start := text.index(scope, line)
+      matches = append(matches, {begin: start, end: start + len(line)})
+    }
+  }
+

modules/reference-guide/pages/ellipses.adoc

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 Avoid ellipsis (...) except to indicate omitted words.
 
+Use a commented out ellipsis (# ...) in YAML code blocks. YAML uses '...' to indicate the end of a document without starting a new one.
+
 .Additional resources
 
 * link:{ibmsg-url-print}[{ibmsg-print} - Ellipses, p. 49]
 * link:{ibmsg-url}?topic=punctuation-ellipses[{ibmsg} - Ellipses]
 * link:{repository-url}blob/main/.vale/styles/RedHat/Ellipses.yml[`Ellipses.yml` source code]
+* link:https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#22-structures[YAML 1.2: Structures]
+* link:{repository-url}blob/main/.vale/styles/RedHat/YamlEllipses.yml[`YamlEllipses.yml` source code]

tengo-rule-scripts/YamlEllipses.tengo

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+/*
+    Tengo Language
+    $ tengo ValidYamlCodeBlocks.tengo <asciidoc_file_to_validate>
+*/
+
+fmt := import("fmt")
+os := import("os")
+text := import("text")
+
+input := os.args()
+scope := os.read_file(input[2])
+matches := []
+
+// clean out multi-line comments
+scope = text.re_replace("(?s) *(\n////.*?////\n)", scope, "")
+//add a newline, it might be missing
+scope += "\n"
+
+codeblock_delim_regex := "^-{4,}$"
+yaml_block_regex := "^\\[(source,yaml).*\\]"
+ellipses := 0
+comment_ellipsis := "^# \\.{3}$"
+reg_ellipsis := "^\\s*\\.{3}$"
+inside_codeblock := false
+
+for line in text.split(scope, "\n") {
+  // trim trailing whitespace
+  line = text.trim_space(line)
+  // check only content in codeblocks
+  if text.re_match(codeblock_delim_regex, line) && inside_codeblock == false {
+    inside_codeblock = true
+  } else if text.re_match(codeblock_delim_regex, line) && inside_codeblock == true {
+    inside_codeblock = false
+  }
+  if !text.re_match(comment_ellipsis, line) && text.re_match(reg_ellipsis, line) && inside_codeblock == true {
+    start := text.index(scope, line)
+    matches = append(matches, {begin: start, end: start + len(line)})
+  }
+}
+
+fmt.println(matches)
+