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:omap Shorthand: !!omap Kind: Sequence. Definition: Ordered sequence of key:value pairs without duplicates. A common type used for modeling is the ordered list of named values, where duplicates are not allowed. For example, this is the basic collection data type used by the PHP language. Most programming languages do not have a built-in native data type for supporting ordered maps. Such data types are usually provided by libraries. If no such data type is available, an application may resort to loading an !!omap into a native array of hash tables containing one key each. The !!omap tag may be given explicitly. Alternatively, the application may choose to implicitly type a sequence of single-key mappings to ordered maps. In this case, an explicit !seq transfer must be given to sequences of single-key mappings that do not represent ordered maps. # Explicitly typed ordered map (dictionary). Bestiary: !!omap - aardvark: African pig-like ant eater. Ugly. - anteater: South-American ant eater. Two species. - anaconda: South-American constrictor snake. Scaly. # Etc. # Flow style Numbers: !!omap [ one: 1, two: 2, three : 3 ]