"The module is very immature yet, but fast as hell (for things it can grok)."

Indeed! I benchmarked it against reading/writing a hashref of arrayref of hashrefs against XML::Simple, and it created files three times faster, and parsed them nine times faster. Unfortunately, the context I'm currently working in involves one line of data transfer only, so I need to work around the new lines if I'm going to work on integrating it.

I think I'll have to examine the JSON::Syck implementation when I finally get round to trying to implement this. I like YAML because, unlike XML, it actually makes sense to me :)