Use this tag for questions about the YAML data serialization format only, not for questions about programs (or examples) that happen to have their configuration in a YAML format.
From the Wikipedia article about YAML:
YAML (/ˈjæməl/, rhymes with camel) is a human-readable data serialization language that takes concepts from programming languages such as C, Perl, and Python, and ideas from XML and the data format of electronic mail (RFC 2822). YAML was first proposed by Clark Evans in 2001, who designed it together with Ingy döt Net and Oren Ben-Kiki. It is available for several programming languages.
YAML is a recursive acronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language". Early in its development, YAML was said to mean "Yet Another Markup Language", but it was then reinterpreted (backronyming the original acronym) to distinguish its purpose as data-oriented, rather than document markup.
Features:
- Its familiar indented outline and lean appearance make it especially suited for tasks where humans are likely to view or edit data structures, such as configuration files, dumping during debugging, and document headers.
- Although well-suited for hierarchical data representation, it also has a compact syntax for relational data as well.
- A major part of its accessibility comes from eschewing the use of enclosures like quotation marks, brackets, braces, and open/close-tags, which can be hard for the human eye to balance in nested hierarchies.
See also
There is also an unrelated CSS framework called YAML
