Yaml Reference

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YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language

What It Is: YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.

YAML Resources: YAML 1.2 (3rd Edition): http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html YAML 1.1 (2nd Edition): http://yaml.org/spec/1.1/ YAML 1.0 (1st Edition): http://yaml.org/spec/1.0/ YAML Issues Page: https://github.com/yaml/yaml/issues YAML Mailing List: [email protected] YAML IRC Channel: "#yaml on irc.freenode.net" YAML Cookbook (Ruby): http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/cookbook/ (local) YAML Reference Parser: http://ben-kiki.org/ypaste/

Projects: C/C++ Libraries:

• libyaml # "C" Fast YAML 1.1
• Syck # (dated) "C" YAML 1.0
• yaml-cpp # C++ YAML 1.2 implementation Ruby:
• psych # libyaml wrapper (in Ruby core for 1.9.2)
• RbYaml # YAML 1.1 (PyYAML Port)
• yaml4r # YAML 1.0, standard library syck binding Python:
• PyYAML # YAML 1.1, pure python and libyaml binding
• ruamel.yaml # YAML 1.2, update of PyYAML with round-tripping of comments
• PySyck # YAML 1.0, syck binding Java:
• JvYaml # Java port of RbYaml
• SnakeYAML # Java 5 / YAML 1.1
• YamlBeans # To/from JavaBeans
• JYaml # Original Java Implementation Perl Modules:
• YAML # Pure Perl YAML Module
• YAML::XS # Binding to libyaml
• YAML::Syck # Binding to libsyck
• YAML::Tiny # A small YAML subset module
• PlYaml # Perl port of PyYAML C#/.NET:
• YamlDotNet # YAML 1.1 library with serialization support
• yaml-net # YAML 1.1 library
• yatools.net # (in-progress) YAML 1.1 implementation Golang:
• Go-yaml # YAML support for the Go language.
• Go-gypsy # Simplified YAML parser written in Go. PHP:
• php-yaml # libyaml bindings (YAML 1.1)
• syck # syck bindings (YAML 1.0)
• spyc # yaml loader/dumper (YAML 1.?) OCaml:
• ocaml-syck # YAML 1.0 via syck bindings Javascript:
• JS-YAML # Native PyYAML port to JavaScript.
• JS-YAML Online# Browserified JS-YAML demo, to play with YAML in your browser. Actionscript:
• as3yaml # port of JvYAML (1.1) Haskell:
• YamlReference # Haskell 1.2 reference parser Dart:
• yaml # YAML package for Dart Rust:
• yaml-rust # YAML 1.2 implementation in pure Rust
• serde-yaml # YAML de/serialization of structs Nim:
• NimYAML # YAML 1.2 implementation in pure Nim Others:
• yamlvim (src) # YAML dumper/emitter in pure vimscript

Related Projects:

• Rx # Multi-Language Schemata Tool for JSON/YAML
• Kwalify # Ruby Schemata Tool for JSON/YAML
• yaml_vim # vim syntax files for YAML
• yatools.net # Visual Studio editor for YAML
• JSON # Official JSON Website
• Pygments # Python language Syntax Colorizer /w YAML support

News:

• 20-NOV-2011 -- JS-YAML, a JavaScript YAML parser by Alexey Zapparov and Vitaly Puzrin.
• 18-AUG-2010 -- Ruby 1.9.2 includes psych, a libyaml wrapper by Aaron Patterson.
• 17-AUG-2010 -- vimscript parser/emitter was created by Nikolay Pavlov.
• 01-OCT-2009 -- YAML 1.2 (3rd Edition) was patched.
• 21-JUL-2009 -- YAML 1.2 (3rd Edition) was released.
• 28-APR-2009 -- A new version of SnakeYAML was released.
• 01-APR-2009 -- The YAML 1.2 spec was planned to be finalized by the end of the month.
• 07-JAN-2009 -- Andrey Somov releases SnakeYAML, a 1.1 YAML Parser
• 03-JAN-2009 -- Burt Harris announced YAML for .NET and editor for Visual Studio
• 02-DEC-2008 -- Jesse Beder released YAML for C++
• 11-MAY-2008 -- Oren Ben-Kiki has released a new YAML 1.2 spec draft
• 29-NOV-2007 -- Alexey Zakhlestin has updated his Syck (YAML 1.0) binding for PHP
• 23-NOV-2007 -- Derek Wischusen has release Action Script 3 YAML 1.1
• 01-AUG-2006 -- Kirill Simonov has released libyaml, a parser and emitter in "C"
• 06-JUN-2006 -- Ola Bini is at it again, this time with a Java implementation
• 03-JUN-2006 -- Christophe Lambrechts and Jonathan Slenders announced a .NET parser
• 07-MAY-2006 -- Ola Bini released a pure-ruby YAML 1.1 parser and emitter
• 12-APR-2006 -- Kirill's YAML 1.1 parser for Python is now at PyYAML
• 05-FEB-2006 -- Spyc YAML for PHP is now at version 0.3
• 17-DEC-2005 -- Makoto Kuwata has released Kwalify 0.5, YAML/JSON schema validator
• 14-DEC-2005 -- Toby Ho has released Jyaml, a Java library for YAML based on Rolf Veen's work
• 30-AUG-2005 -- Kirill Simonov has produce a wonderful Python binding for Syck
• 08-APR-2005 -- As it turns out, YAML is a superset of the JSON serialization language
• 18-MAY-2005 -- Why has released version 0.55 of Syck
• 28-DEC-2004 -- Announcing YAML 1.1 Working Draft
• 01-OCT-2004 -- YAML for Cocoa was released by Will Thimbley
• 08-FEB-2004 -- Slaven Rezic announced a new version of his Javascript binding
• 29-JAN-2004 -- Ingy, Oren, and Clark spent 4 days hacking on the spec in Portland.
• 10-OCT-2003 -- The Syck implementation with bindings for Ruby, Python, and PHP is now at version .41
• 26-APR-2003 -- Mike Orr has taken over the Pure Python development.
• 26-APR-2003 -- Brian Ingerson has created a FIT platform for Wiki-like testing.
• 24-JAN-2003 -- Updates to specification.
• 25-JUL-2002 -- Both the Ruby and Python parsers have made significant progress. There is an article about YAML by Kendall Grant Clark at xml.com. There is also a draft XML binding.
• 02-JUL-2002 -- Brian Ingerson will be giving a 45 minute presentation on YAML at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in San Diego on July 24th 2002.
• 01-FEB-2002 -- Brian's Perl implementation YAML.pm, has been updated with new documentation. Included in this release is YSH, a test shell for learning how YAML works.
• 03-JAN-2002 -- YAML(tm) starts the new year with a new name YAML Ain't Markup Language.
• 17-MAY-2001 -- YAML now has a mailing list at SourceForge.
• 15-MAY-2001 -- YAML is started with a first pass specification.

Maintained by Clark C. Evans

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