Re: Better block literals

> From what I understand,

You got it.

But indenting the block as you suggest, I must avoid.  That was the
point.  So, back to the point.

YAML cannot handle real literal blocks.  It needs whitespace
interpretation within literals.

So try the line-count idea instead of terminators.  There is already a
document terminator ... so I don't understand your issues, but line
counts also work.  Every other data format uses a variation of one or
the other.  The actual buffers in RAM do the same:  byte count or
terminator.  YAML is the outlier.

You can also have character-count equivalent in addition to line-count. 
Most people would prefer line-count I think, but both are easy.

Given the present YAML, what about just using two separate docs in the
same disk file?  Is that viable?  The idea being to separate the block
literal into a stand-alone stanza without indentation.

---
fieldA: value
fieldB: value
...

---
nstringskey: |+
very long literal
string
etc.
etc.
etc.
...

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