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YAML topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around YAML.

Related topics: 86
Source areas: 7
Connected nodes: 93
Extracted relationships: 104
Concept neighborhoods: 26
Bridge connections: 93

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 32 topics

Design · 30 topics

Comparison with other serialization formats · 11 topics

Features · 4 topics

History and name · 4 topics

Software (emitters and parsers) · 3 topics

Criticism · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Filename extensions: .yaml, .yml
Initial release: 11 May 2001; 25 years ago (2001-05-11)
Internet media type: application/yaml
Latest release: 1.2 (Revision 1.2.2) 1 October 2021; 4 years ago (2021-10-01)
Open format?: Yes
Type of format: Data interchange

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Human-readable
Data serialization language
Configuration files Configuration file
Extensible Markup Language
Syntax Syntax (programming languages)
Standard Generalized Markup Language
Python Python (programming language)
JSON
Scalars Scalar (computing)
Strings String (computer science)
Integers Integer (computer science)
Floats Floating point
Lists List (computing)
Associative arrays
Perl
Key-value pairs Attribute–value pair
Electronic mail
RFC RFC (identifier)
Document separator Delimiter
MIME
Escape sequences
HTML
Tree structure
Graphs Graph (abstract data type)
SOAP
Streams Stream (computing)
SAX Simple API for XML
Vim Vim (text editor)
Emacs
Integrated development environments Integrated development environment
Filename extension
MIME type

History and name

Design

Control characters Control character
UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-32
Whitespace Whitespace (computer science)
Indentation Indent style
Tab characters Tab character
Comments Comment (computer programming)
Number sign
Hyphen Hyphen-minus
Square brackets
Comma Comma (punctuation)
Associative array
Colon Colon (punctuation)
Space Space (punctuation)
Question mark
Curly braces
Double-quotes Double quote
Single-quotes Single quote
C-style C (programming language)
Backslash
Hyphens
Periods Full stop
Ampersand
Asterisk
Exclamation mark
Percent sign
JSON JavaScript Object Notation
Sigil Sigil (computer programming)
Base64

Features

Delimiter collision
CDATA
Validation Application security
Safe parsing JavaScript

Comparison with other serialization formats

Conciseness Concision
Serialization
TOML
.ini file format INI file
Significant indentation Off-side rule
Dot notation Property (programming)
Doctrine Doctrine (PHP)
Kwalify Kwalify?action=edit&redlink=1
YAXML YAXML?action=edit&redlink=1
XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
Comparison of data-serialization formats

Software (emitters and parsers)

Regular expressions Regular expression
Why the lucky stiff
APIs Application Programming Interface

Criticism

Significant whitespace
NestedText NestedText?action=edit&redlink=1

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How YAML connects Entity context

The extracted context around YAML shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, YAML → For, Hence, Ian Cordasco, In, Ingy, It, Kirill Simonov, Most, Net, Similarly, Some, Syck, There, To Another extracted example is YAML → April, Clark Evans, December, HTML, Ingy, Its, Net, Oren Ben-Kiki, Originally YAML, SGML, XML, YAML Ain't Markup Language, Yet Another Markup Language. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Top relations

related to Software (emitters and parsers) · 14

YAML → For, Hence, Ian Cordasco, In, Ingy, It, Kirill Simonov, Most, Net, Similarly, Some, Syck, There, To

related to history · 13

YAML → April, Clark Evans, December, HTML, Ingy, Its, Net, Oren Ben-Kiki, Originally YAML, SGML, XML, YAML Ain't Markup Language, Yet Another Markup Language

related to Comparison with XML · 12

YAML → Additionally, Doctrine, However, Instead YAML, Kwalify, Moreover, Rx, XML, XML's, XSLT, YAML's, YAXML

related to Data processing and representation · 9

YAML → All YAML-compliant, API, Finally, For, In, Moreover, Presentation, The, The YAML

related to Security · 7

YAML → Any YAML, However, Perl, This, Using, While, YAML's

related to Syntax · 7

YAML → JSON, The, Though UTF-32, Unicode, UTF-16, UTF-32, UTF-8

related to Comparison with JSON · 6

YAML → JSON, JSON's, Syck, This, Though, While

related to Non-hierarchical data models · 6

YAML → An, IDREF, The YAML, This, Unlike JSON, XML

related to Indented delimiting · 5

YAML → Because YAML, CDATA, JSON, XML, YAML's

related to Comparison with TOML · 4

YAML → Opinions, TOML, TOML's, YAML's

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

data json may used document types language indentation strings using files xml also type whitespace one structures example syntax keys

YAML relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 104 structured relationships around YAML. Examples in this analysis include YAML → Filename extensions → .yaml, .yml and YAML → Initial release → 11 May 2001; 25 years ago (2001-05-11). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
YAML	Filename extensions	.yaml, .yml	1.00	infobox
YAML	Initial release	11 May 2001; 25 years ago (2001-05-11)	1.00	infobox
YAML	Internet media type	application/yaml	1.00	infobox
YAML	Latest release	1.2 (Revision 1.2.2) 1 October 2021; 4 years ago (2021-10-01)	1.00	infobox
YAML	Open format?	Yes	1.00	infobox
YAML	Type of format	Data interchange	1.00	infobox
YAML	Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)	public.yaml	1.00	infobox
YAML	Website	yaml.org	1.00	infobox
Vim	instance of	Some source-code editors	0.80	text
Emacs	instance of	Some source-code editors	0.80	text
and various integrated development environments have features that make editing YAML easier	instance of	Some source-code editors	0.80	text
such as folding up nested structures or automatically highlighting syntax errors.The official recommended filename extension for YAML files has been.yamlsince 2006	instance of	Some source-code editors	0.80	text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around YAML bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Data, Structures and Json. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

YAML
- Data
- Structures
- Json
- Document
- Xml
- Files
- Types
- Languages
- Many
- Parser
- Specification
- Documents
yaml
- Data
- Structures
- Json
- Document
- Xml
- Files
- Types
- Languages
- Many
- Parser
- Specification
- Documents
data serialization language
- Types
- Yaml
- Structures
- Json
- Languages
- Many
- Example
- Syntax
- Files
- Using
- Xml
- Serialization
json
- Values
- Yaml
- Serialization
- Syntax
- Associative
- Space
- Key
- Quotes
- Separated
- Documents
- Keys
- Strings
document separator
- Yaml
- Used
- Within
- Documents
- One
- May
- Syntax
- Quotes
- Single
- Separated
- Specification
- Values
strings
- Escape
- Lists
- Key
- One
- Types
- Space
- Characters
- Parser
- Within
- Separated
- Values
- Whitespace
associative arrays
- Keys
- Space
- Key
- Separated
- Values
- Strings
- One
- Json
- Lists
- Quotes
- Data
- Types
associative array
- Keys
- Space
- Key
- Separated
- Values
- Strings
- One
- Json
- Lists
- Quotes
- Data
- Types

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For YAML, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects YAML with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

YAML — Overview · splits 61 ⟂ 33

YAML — Design · splits 63 ⟂ 31

YAML — Comparison with other serialization formats · splits 82 ⟂ 12

YAML — History and name · splits 89 ⟂ 5

YAML — Features · splits 89 ⟂ 5

YAML — Software (emitters and parsers) · splits 90 ⟂ 4

YAML — Criticism · splits 91 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

YAML

Nodes94

Edges93

Triples104

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.021277

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around YAML to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — YAML · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout