Yaml
 

Hey all,

(Sorry for posting in the XML section but it seemed most appropriate, even though Yaml isn't XML :-))

Has anyone used the YAML format in a project?

If so, I'd be interested to know what you used it for, ie, what data you stored in it.

Also, did you use it as a database replacement, config file, etc?

Thanks in advanced :-)

Alan

Never heard about it.
To be honest... looks a little ugly and complicated to me.

I agree with DeMo, though I have heard of YAML. I wouldn't use it in a web project though, and the language I do use apart from PHP doesn't have a binding. So I can't/won't experiment with it.

Edit: Let me rephrase that: it kinda has a binding, but it's either incomplete or unstable on roughly 25% of YAML's features.

Why not use JSON instead of YAML? They both have data serialization as a goal, and JSON is much more easier and closer to the concept of "human readable computer code". Although YAML is much more complex (has data types and some advanced features from what I've seen on the Wikipedia page) if I'd need data serialization, I'd go for JSON.

I've used YAML is as yet another output format for a web service, just because it was fun to be able to return lots of different forms of the same data. :)

Oh and I think it was/is used as a part of Symfony for the database configurations.

Thanks for the responses guys. Seems that I can't browse a blog nowadays without tripping over an article telling me that Yaml is the next big thing so I figured it was worth a look.

Will likely be using it in an upcoming project so will let you all know how I get on :-)

Alan