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You can turn any piece of a YAML into a JSON object and it will be read just as well. This YAML: user: name: Ted is equivalent to this YAML: u

by rudian 5y ago

You can turn any piece of a YAML into a JSON object and it will be read just as well. This YAML: user: name: Ted is equivalent to this YAML: user: {"name": "Ted"} which is equivalent to this YAML/JSON: {"user": {"name": "Ted"}}

Spivak 5y ago
While true, this is what being a supperset means. What it means is that any JSON document is, without modification, valid YAML document and can be read with a YAML parser.
- andoriyu 5y ago
  That's exactly the case. Any YAML 1.2 parser can parse any valid json document as is.
- Izkata 5y ago
  I think you mean "this isn't what".
erik_seaberg 5y ago
YAML supports tagged nodes and multiple documents in a stream, which can’t be represented in standard JSON. (You could make up conventions, but only your parser would support them.)