yaml

YAML Ain't Markup Language
YAML

   <data, language> (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 (http://yaml.org/).

   (2004-02-02)