[Gllug] YAML

[Doug Winter]

Since we were on the subject of markup, some people may be interested in
YAML:

    http://www.yaml.org/

It's very nicely designed IMO, although it has some of the problems of a
DWIM approach in that it's got a few sharp edges.

It's far more suited to a lot of the tasks XML is used for than XML.
Configuration files particularly work very nicely.

There are some rather uninspired examples of some of the features here:

http://www.yaml.org/spec/#id2489715

doug.

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