From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-07-27T09:53:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] YAML in Five Minutes

Rich (rich@lithinos.com) wrote:
> Wow. It is simple...
> 
> A question - Is a YAML parser easier to develop than an XML parser (not full
> functionality, just midlevel support)?
> 
> -Rich

It's a pretty close race.  I'd say YAML has a few more tokens than XML.
In addition, indentation can be difficult to parse.  I'd say a midlevel
XML parser would be easier to write than a YAML parser.  Neither is an
incredibly daunting task, though.

Fortunately, you don't have to build a YAML parser, if you use Ruby.

_why