Re: YAML-POD to Perl to Web?

YAML is general data structure serialisation language while XML and HTML are specially designed for text markup. To show the difference write a YAML representation of this HTML:

This is <em>another tangential thought</em> that comes from
<i>"Thinking In <b>Perl</b>"</i> rather than thinking like 
he rest of the <b>world</b>.
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Formated:

This is another tangential thought that comes from "Thinking In Perl" rather than thinking like he rest of the world.

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Re: Re: YAML-POD to Perl to Web? by flyingmoose (Priest) on Feb 19, 2004 at 23:11 UTC
Or even more bluntly, YAML's recursive acronym is "YAML Ain't Markup Language", not "Yet Another Markup Language" as most folks tend to think.	[reply]
Re^3: YAML-POD to Perl to Web? by rje (Deacon) on Oct 21, 2004 at 04:21 UTC
Yes, it's a way to represent a graph or heirarchy, I guess. But sometimes chunks of HTML display heirarchical data. Every few months I keep coming back to the idea of YAML -> perl structures -> HTML, and I'm not quite sure why. Could be my brain is stuck on a roundabout somewhere.	[reply]