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# D:YAML
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[](https://travis-ci.org/dlang-community/D-YAML)
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[](http://code.dlang.org/packages/dyaml)
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## Introduction
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D:YAML is an open source YAML parser and emitter library for the D
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programming language. It is
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([almost](https://github.com/dlang-community/D-YAML/wiki/Differences-between-D:YAML-and-the-YAML-specification))
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compliant to the YAML 1.1 specification. D:YAML is based on
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[PyYAML](http://www.pyyaml.org) created by Kirill Simonov.
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D:YAML is designed to be easy to use while supporting the full feature
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set of YAML. To start using it in your project, see the [Getting
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Started](https://github.com/dlang-community/D-YAML/wiki/Getting-Started)
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tutorial.
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D:YAML is still a work in progress. Its API is not stable and there
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might be compatibility breaking changes.
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## Features
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- Easy to use, high level API and detailed debugging messages.
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- Detailed API documentation and tutorials.
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- Code examples.
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- Supports all YAML 1.1 constructs. All examples from the YAML 1.1
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specification are parsed correctly.
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- Reads from and writes from/to YAML files or in-memory buffers.
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- UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings are supported, both big and
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little endian (plain ASCII also works as it is a subset of UTF-8).
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- Support for both block (Python-like, based on indentation) and flow
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(JSON-like, based on bracing) constructs.
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- Support for YAML anchors and aliases.
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- Support for default values in mappings.
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- Support for custom tags (data types), and implicit tag resolution
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for custom scalar tags.
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- All tags (data types) described at <http://yaml.org/type/> are
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supported, with the exception of `tag:yaml.org,2002:yaml`, which is
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used to represent YAML code in YAML.
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- Remembers YAML style information between loading and dumping if
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possible.
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- Reuses input memory and uses slices to minimize memory allocations.
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- There is no support for recursive data structures. There are no
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plans to implement this at the moment.
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## Directory structure
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| Directory | Contents |
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|---------------|--------------------------------|
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| `./` | This README, utility scripts. |
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| `./doc` | Documentation. |
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| `./docsrc` | Documentation sources. |
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| `./source` | Source code. |
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| `./examples/` | Example projects using D:YAML. |
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| `./test` | Unittest data. |
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## Installing and tutorial
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See the [Getting
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Started](https://github.com/dlang-community/D-YAML/wiki/Getting-Started)
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tutorial and other tutorials that can be found at the [GitHub
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wiki](https://github.com/dlang-community/D-YAML/wiki) and in the
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`doc/html/tutorials/` directory in the package.
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## License
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D:YAML is released under the terms of the [Boost Software
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License 1.0](http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt). This license allows
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you to use the source code in your own projects, open source or
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proprietary, and to modify it to suit your needs. However, in source
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distributions, you have to preserve the license headers in the source
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code and the accompanying license file.
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Full text of the license can be found in file `LICENSE_1_0.txt` and is
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also displayed here:
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Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
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obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
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this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
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execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
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Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
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do so, all subject to the following:
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The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
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the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
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must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
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all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
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works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
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a source language processor.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
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SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
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FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
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ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
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DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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## Credits
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D:YAML was created by Ferdinand Majerech aka Kiith-Sa
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kiithsacmp\[AT\]gmail.com .
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Parts of code based on [PyYAML](http://www.pyyaml.org) created by Kirill
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Simonov.
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D:YAML was created using Vim and DMD on Debian, Ubuntu and Linux Mint as
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a YAML parsing library for the [D programming
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language](http://www.dlang.org).
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