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Add support for root-level arrays

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reproducing the transformation failure described in the issue and review the linked slow-cheetah issue for context. Trace how the tool validates and transforms the root element; done means root-level arrays transform successfully, errors are clearer, and existing transformations remain working.

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Description

enhancement

Currently, the root-level element cannot be an array, the transformation will fail. First off, I think we need to add better error handling to improve the user experience. Then, look into supporting this without breaking transformations.

See: https://github.com/Microsoft/slow-cheetah/issues/92

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