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YAML: YAML Ain’t Markup Language

http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html

by Aegean • 16 years ago

4 1 16 years ago

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crazydiamond• 16 years ago

This is old news. Is there some reason this link has been posted ? What does @aegean wish to discuss.

I've used YAML quite a bit. However, unlike XML, content can get jumbled if there are say "-" inside a field. Complex content won't work with YAML. I once came across a ruby website builder that used YAML for its pages (i think it was called hobix, in the days of _why/redhanded). The YAML would get saved to a file, but when reading it would throw errors due to the content within a field.

So i ditched YAML and used pstore (unfortunately this is ruby specific and not a text file). XML has CDATA or similar tags to mark such data.

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