Yaml should recognize escaped slashes ("\/" -> "/") itself

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I want to read the (twitter-like) api of identi.ca. 

A typical dokument looks like this: http://identi.ca/api/users/show/rms.json

This seems to be valid json (and hence yaml) as per http://www.jsonlint.com/

But if i load() it with SnakeYaml, an Exception occurs:

found unknown escape character /(47)
 in "<reader>", line 7, column 33:
        "profile_image_url": "http:\/\/avatar.identi.ca\/94029-48-20 ... 

Replacing all \/ with / in the input resolves the problem – i expected Yaml 
to do this unasked (instead of totally breaking down).

Besides, i’m using SnakeYaml version 1.7 on Ubuntu 10.04 with OpenJDK build 
16.0-b13.

Thanks for this great library!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Dennis.H...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2010 at 11:23

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JSON is a subset of YAML 1.2
SnakeYAML implements YAML 1.0 and 1.1
As far as I know there is no parser which implements YAML 1.2 at the moment.

The coming release (1.8) will not deliver YAML 1.2 implementation. The work has 
started but it will take some time 
(http://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/source/clones)

Original comment by py4fun@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2010 at 10:11

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So it’s more or less my fault. Thanks for the clarification!

Original comment by Dennis.H...@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 1:09

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I have put some info to the documentation:

http://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/wiki/Documentation?ts=1289207595&updated=Docu
mentation#JSON_support

Original comment by py4fun@gmail.com on 8 Nov 2010 at 9:17

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