[ANN] YAML in Five Minutes

ruby-talk
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Perhaps you’ve heard that Ruby 1.8.0 now includes YAML support, but
you’re not exactly sure what YAML is or you don’t want to spend the time
reading the long documents at yaml.org.

I’m starting a series of tutorials to help Ruby users learn YAML
quickly. The first tutorial is a very basic primer titled “Yaml in Five
Minutes.”

http://yaml.freepan.org/index.cgi?YamlInFiveMinutes

The tutorial is five short pages long, each covering a single aspect of
YAML in a minute’s time. By the end, you should be able to construct
beautiful YAML documents for your personal use.

If you already know YAML, I would certainly appreciate suggestions for
improvement. And if you have an idea for a tutorial or would like to
add to the YAML wiki, go for it.

Thank you.

_why

2

Wow. It is simple…

A question - Is a YAML parser easier to develop than an XML parser (not full
functionality, just midlevel support)?

-Rich

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From: “why the lucky stiff” ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net
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Subject: [ANN] YAML in Five Minutes

Perhaps you’ve heard that Ruby 1.8.0 now includes YAML support, but
you’re not exactly sure what YAML is or you don’t want to spend the time
reading the long documents at yaml.org.

I’m starting a series of tutorials to help Ruby users learn YAML
quickly. The first tutorial is a very basic primer titled “Yaml in Five
Minutes.”

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The tutorial is five short pages long, each covering a single aspect of
YAML in a minute’s time. By the end, you should be able to construct
beautiful YAML documents for your personal use.

If you already know YAML, I would certainly appreciate suggestions for
improvement. And if you have an idea for a tutorial or would like to
add to the YAML wiki, go for it.

Thank you.

_why

3

Wow… it took me 5 minutes and about 30 seconds.
I don’t know much time I spend on each page, so I wouldn’t add my self to
the ‘finishers’ page.

Keep up the good work.

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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 05:30:10 +0900, why the lucky stiff wrote:

I’m starting a series of tutorials to help Ruby users learn YAML
quickly. The first tutorial is a very basic primer titled “Yaml in Five
Minutes.”

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Simon Strandgaard

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It’s a pretty close race. I’d say YAML has a few more tokens than XML.
In addition, indentation can be difficult to parse. I’d say a midlevel
XML parser would be easier to write than a YAML parser. Neither is an
incredibly daunting task, though.

Fortunately, you don’t have to build a YAML parser, if you use Ruby.

_why

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Rich (rich@lithinos.com) wrote:

Wow. It is simple…

A question - Is a YAML parser easier to develop than an XML parser (not full
functionality, just midlevel support)?

-Rich

5

well, XML parsers can be validating, then they must parse DTDs and/or XShemas
and then i’d they they become considerably more complicated than YAML (or did
i miss something?).

emmanuel

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On Sunday 27 of July 2003 02:53, why the lucky stiff wrote:

A question - Is a YAML parser easier to develop than an XML parser (not
full functionality, just midlevel support)?

It’s a pretty close race. I’d say YAML has a few more tokens than XML.
In addition, indentation can be difficult to parse. I’d say a midlevel
XML parser would be easier to write than a YAML parser. Neither is an
incredibly daunting task, though.

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