Anchoring "cross load()"

[rpnidgit]

load() seems to confine all anchoring/aliasing to the loaded file, not allowing any sharing from or to the loading context.

Any chance to change this?

Or maybe I am just thick, and not seeing a proper way to achieve my current goal, which is no less than to split up lengthy files in generic(-ish) fashion, with anchor definitions and references split as well?

[mikefarah]

Unfortunately the anchor logic is within the underlying yaml parser library, which only has context of the current yaml document its parsing.

What you can do though, is come up with some sort of convention, say

apple:
  templateReference: data2.yaml
banana: great

Whereby templateReference means you want to substitute the contents with data2.yaml; then you can use yq to do process:

yq ' (.. | select(has("templateReference"))) |= load(.templateReference)' data1.yaml