A stream whose only content is comments or whitespace has zero documents in YAML 1.2 (confirmed by both libyaml and the suite's test.event), but PureYAML was emitting a spurious empty null document into the event stream. Stop emitting it; the single-document value API maps an empty document stream to null, so PureYAML.parse("") is unchanged.
Found two ways: the canonical event gate (8G76, 98YD, AVM7) and, independently, differential testing against libyaml built from the CYaml source over the real-world corpus, where a comment-only values.yaml diverged. Raises exact canonical-event conformance to 267 of 308; the real-world differential agreement rises to 113 of 114. Adds a gated PureYAML yeast-event dumper used to drive the libyaml differential.
The conformance number was measured against a lossy oracle: the JSON
projection (in.json) discards anchors, tags, and scalar styles, and exists
for only about half the cases, so "passing" often meant only "parse did not
throw". Measured against the official suite's own test.event event streams,
the true exact conformance is 254 of 308 valid cases (40 emit a wrong event
stream, 14 false-reject), well below the JSON-proxy figure.
Add a canonical-event gate (Tests/CanonicalEventConformanceTests.swift) that
serializes the parser's events into the yaml-test-suite yeast format and
compares them exactly to each case's test.event, checking anchors, tags,
scalar styles, flow vs block, and explicit document markers, for every valid
case. The gate records the gap set and fails on any regression or unrecorded
fix. All 402 test.event files are vendored alongside their inputs.
To make the comparison exact, the parser Event model now records whether a
document boundary was explicit (documentStart/documentEnd carry an `explicit`
flag), distinguishing `---`/`...` from an implicit boundary. This resolves 89
cases that were previously correct but unverifiable without normalization.
No parser behavior changed; this is measurement and model fidelity. The 40
wrong-event and 14 false-reject cases are the real remaining gaps, to be fixed
against this gate.
A mapping key is a full node: it may carry &anchor and !tag properties and may itself be an *alias. Fixes: (1) anchor/alias name scanning now stops at the first non-name character per yaml_parser_scan_anchor, so *a: reads as alias 'a' plus a mapping indicator instead of name 'a:'; (2) the block-mapping parser enters on a leading node property or alias, attaches same-line key properties to the key node, and emits alias keys directly; (3) an anchor or tag at value position with no same-line node composes an empty (null) value carrying the property, so 'a: &anchor' registers the anchor; (4) the composer registers an anchor's resolved model value (an empty anchored scalar registers null); (5) implicit keys with trailing spaces before the colon are recognized.
Flips 10 official YAML test suite cases to passing (280/402), including G9HC now correctly rejected. 2SXE no longer false-rejects but still value-mismatches on compact-mapping interpretation (a separate gap), so it is reclassified in the manifest rather than removed. Updates the manifest, fixtures, counts, and roadmap.
Add structured validation diagnostics, JSON and Yams comparison gates, and lazy token/event parsing so production behavior is measured without retaining full intermediate parser arrays.
