Wow, that might actually work?

builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile (self.outPath + "/flake.lock"))

I mean:

nix-repl> :lf .
Added 15 variables.

nix-repl> test
{ nodes = { ... }; root = "root"; version = 7; }

Wow, that might actually work?

test = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile (self.outPath + "/flake.lock"));

In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
you shouldn't give me ideas like this, this is dangerous

And I was asked by a friend whether I could write some "arbitrary XML generation" 😄 https://github.com/CRTified/nixml

And since then, I'm thinking about whether I should write a parser, and maybe write an XSD parser to have some xsdToOptions function 🥲

In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
but I didn't know they were doing, like, regex XML parsing to get that back out

In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
we have builtins.toXML but no parser??