Working Draft 2005-01-18 Oren Ben-Kiki oren@ben-kiki.org Clark Evans cce+yaml@clarkevans.com Brian Ingerson ingy@ttul.org 2001-2005 Oren Ben-Kiki,  Clark Evans,  Brian Ingerson This document may be freely copied provided it is not modified. This specification is a draft reflecting consensus reached by members of the yaml-core mailing list. Any questions regarding this draft should be raised on this list.

URI: tag:yaml.org,2002:map Shorthand: !!map Kind: Mapping. Definition: Associative container, where each key is unique in the association and mapped to exactly one value. YAML places no restrictions on the type of keys; in particular, they are not restricted to being scalars. Example bindings include Perl’s hash, Python’s dictionary, and Java’s Hashtable. Resolution and Validation: This tag accepts all mapping values. It is is typically used as the fall-back tag for mapping nodes. # Unordered set of key: value pairs. Block style: !!map Clark : Evans Brian : Ingerson Oren : Ben-Kiki Flow style: !!map { Clark: Evans, Brian: Ingerson, Oren: Ben-Kiki }