# YAML Parser

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/yaml-parser/211374>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 31, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/yaml-parser/211374 "2006-12-31T00:13:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/yaml-parser/211374/1 "2006-12-31T00:13:25Z")

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It seems like a lot of Flash people don’t like working with XML in AS. Well, a pretty popular alternative, common in Ruby, PHP, Rails, etc. is [**YAML**](http://www.yaml.org/).

I was just wondering, why isn’t there any interest in this from Flash people? It’s, uh, really easy. Somebody here should write a parser for it. 🙂

Just a sample array of Strings:

```auto
- item one
- item two
- item three

```

And a much more complicated example ([http://www.yaml.org/start.html](http://www.yaml.org/start.html)):

```auto
--- !clarkevans.com/^invoice
invoice: 34843
date : 2001-01-23
bill-to: &id001
    given : Chris
    family : Dumars
    address:
        lines: |
            458 Walkman Dr.
            Suite #292
        city : Royal Oak
        state : MI
        postal : 48046
ship-to: *id001
product:
    - sku : BL394D
      quantity : 4
      description : Basketball
      price : 450.00
    - sku : BL4438H
      quantity : 1
      description : Super Hoop
      price : 2392.00
tax : 251.42
total: 4443.52
comments: >
    Late afternoon is best.
    Backup contact is Nancy
    Billsmer @ 338-4338.

```

A nice introduction, too: [http://yaml.kwiki.org/?YamlInFiveMinutes](http://yaml.kwiki.org/?YamlInFiveMinutes)