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    <title>
      <trademark>YAML</trademark>&nbsp;Specification&nbsp;Index
    </title>

    <subtitle>Last Updated On 2005-01-18</subtitle>

    <copyright>
      <year>2001-2005</year>
      <holder>Oren Ben-Kiki<fo>,&nbsp;</fo></holder>
      <holder>Clark Evans<fo>,&nbsp;</fo></holder>
      <holder>Brian Ingerson</holder>
    </copyright>

    <legalnotice>
      This document may be freely copied provided it is not modified.
    </legalnotice>
  </articleinfo>

  <section>
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>
      <trademark>YAML</trademark> (rhymes with <quote>camel</quote>) is a
      human-friendly, cross language, Unicode based data serialization language
      designed around the common native data structures of agile programming
      languages. It is broadly useful for programming needs ranging from
      configuration files to Internet messaging to object persistence to data
      auditing. Together with the <ulink url="http://www.unicode.org/">Unicode
      standard for characters</ulink>, the YAML <ulink
      url="http://yaml.org/spec/current.html">specification</ulink> provides
      all the information necessary to understand YAML Version 1.1 and to
      creating programs that process YAML information.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Specification</title>

    <para>
      Current (drafts):
    </para>

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          YAML latest posted specification
        </term>

        <listitem>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/spec/current.html">html</ulink>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/spec/current.pdf">pdf</ulink>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/spec/current.ps">ps</ulink>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          YAML latest CVS snapshot
        </term>

        <listitem>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/spec/cvs/current.html">html</ulink>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/spec/cvs/current.pdf">pdf</ulink>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/spec/cvs/current.ps">ps</ulink>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          Changes List
        </term>

        <listitem>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/spec/changes.html">html</ulink>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/spec/changes.pdf">pdf</ulink>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/spec/changes.ps">ps</ulink>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          Types Repository
        </term>

        <listitem>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/type/index.html">html</ulink>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/type/index.pdf">pdf</ulink>
          <ulink url="http://yaml.org/type/index.ps">ps</ulink>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

    <para>
      Dated revisions:
    </para>

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          2004-12-30 (draft YAML 1.1)
        </term>

        <listitem>
          <ulink
     url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2004-12-30/2004-12-30.html">html</ulink>
          <ulink
     url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2004-12-30/2004-12-30.pdf">pdf</ulink>
          <ulink
     url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2004-12-30/2004-12-30.ps">ps</ulink>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          2004-01-29 (last call YAML 1.0)
        </term>

        <listitem>
          <ulink
     url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2004-01-29/2004-01-29.html">html</ulink>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>
          Historical Versions
        </term>

        <listitem>
          <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-03-30.html">2001-03-30</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-05-15.html">2001-05-15</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-05-26.html">2001-05-26</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-06-16.html">2001-06-16</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-08-01.html">2001-08-01</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-12-10.html">2001-12-10</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2002-04-07.html">2002-04-07</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2002-09-01.html">2002-09-01</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2002-10-31.html">2002-10-31</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2003-03-15.html">2003-03-15</ulink>
          , <ulink
          url="http://yaml.org/spec/history/2003-09-01.html">2003-09-01</ulink>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
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