YAML is a human-friendly data serialization format. The specification for this language and many examples are available from the Official YAML web site. You may also want to check the YAML Wikipedia article. yamerl is a pure Erlang application which is able to parse YAML 1.1 and YAML 1.2 documents, as well as JSON documents. It only depends on standard Erlang/OTP applications. WWW: https://github.com/yakaz/yamerl