NAME

YAML::LibYAML - LibYAML bindings for Perl

SYNOPSIS

use YAML::LibYAML;

my $yaml = Dump [ 1..4 ];
my $array = Load $yaml;

DESCRIPTION

Kirill Siminov's libyaml is arguably the best YAML implementation. The C library is written precisely to the YAML 1.1 specification. It was originally bound to Python and was later bound to Ruby.

This module is a Perl XS binding to libyaml which will (eventually) offer Perl the best YAML support to date.

This module exports the functions Dump and Load. These functions are intended to work exactly like YAML.pm's corresponding functions.

SUPPORTED:

* Unblessed hashes
* Unblessed arrays
* Unblessed scalars
* Duplicate hash/array refs
* Circular refs
* Scalar refs
* Empty Strings
* Undef values
* JSON true/false roundtripping

UNSUPPORTED:

* Blessed stuff
* Typeglobs
* Regexps
* Code refs
* Format refs
* File handles (IO refs)

NOTE: This very early proof-of-concept does not yet support YAML type tags. And perl specific stuff like globs.

On the other hand, this module supports the full YAML syntax for everything else. There are no known bugs in libyaml yet.

YAML::LibYAML passes all tests defined by YAML::Tests.

This work should progress quickly so check back often.

AUTHOR

Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007. Ingy döt Net. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html