(YAML) A data serialisation language
designed to be readable and writable by humans and to work
well with modern programming languages.
YAML uses printable
Unicode characters to represent both
structure and data. The structural syntax is simple and
terse. For example, indentation is used for structure, colons
separate pairs, and dashes are used for list items.
YAML can represent mappings (hashes or dictionaries),
sequences (arrays or lists), scalars (strings or numbers),
or any combination of the above. It has a simple typing system and
reference syntax. Its structures will be
particularly familiar to programmers using
Perl,
Python,
PHP,
Ruby, or
Javascript, but YAML can be used with any
programming language.
YAML is, in some respects, a simpler alternative to XML,
though it does not share the constraints imposed by XML's
SGML legacy and has somewhat different aims.
YAML Home.