# IT:AD:YAML #

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* See also:
    * [[IT/AD/JSON/]]
    * [[IT/AD/PJSON/]]
    * [[IT/AD/JSONNET/]]
    * [[IT/AD/Markdown/]]
    * [[IT/AD/MSON/]]
    * [[IT/AD/MessagePack/]] <- at the other end of readability...
    * https://pointillistic.com/ren/
    * [[http://skysigal.com/it/ad/vsts/bs/build_definition/howto/yaml/]]



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It's a human-readable data serialization format.

Think of it as a concise Markdown-like syntax for Data. ie...readable, JSON.

Uses indentation to nest sets.

Not everyone likes it((https://arp242.net/weblog/yaml_probably_not_so_great_after_all.html)).


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## Tools ##

* https://yamlserializer.codeplex.com/
* http://yaml.org/
* http://codebeautify.org/yaml-to-json-xml-csv

## Resources ##

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML