NAME

       Template::Plugin::YAML - Plugin interface to YAML

SYNOPSIS

           [% USE YAML %]

           [% YAML.dump(variable) %]
           [% YAML.dump_html(variable) %]
           [% value = YAML.undump(yaml_string) %]
           [% YAML.dumpfile(filename, variable) %]
           [% value = YAML.undumpfile(filename) %]

DESCRIPTION

       This is a simple Template Toolkit Plugin Interface to the YAML module.  A YAML object will
       be instantiated via the following directive:

           [% USE YAML %]

       As a standard plugin, you can also specify its name in lower case:

           [% USE yaml %]

METHODS

       These are the methods supported by the YAML object.

   dump( @variables )
       Generates a raw text dump of the data structure(s) passed

           [% USE Dumper %]
           [% yaml.dump(myvar) %]
           [% yaml.dump(myvar, yourvar) %]

   dump_html( @variables )
       Generates a dump of the data structures, as per "dump", but with the characters <, > and &
       converted to their equivalent HTML entities, spaces converted to &nbsp; and newlines
       converted to <br>.

           [% USE yaml %]
           [% yaml.dump_html(myvar) %]

   undump( $string )
       Converts a YAML-encoded string into the equivalent data structure.  Here's a way to deep-
       copy a complex structure by completely serializing the data.

         [% USE yaml;
            yaml_string = yaml.dump(complex_data_structure);
            complex_copy = yaml.undump(yaml_string);
         %]

   dumpfile( $file, @variables )
       Converts the data to YAML encoding, and dumps it to the specified filepath.

         [% USE yaml; yaml.dumpfile(".storage", my_data) %]

   undumpfile( $file )
       Loads the YAML-encoded data from the specified filepath

         [% USE yaml; my_data = yaml.undumpfile(".storage") %]

AUTHORS

       Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>, with undump, undumpfile, and dumpfile
       implementation by Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>

       based on Simon Matthews' Template::Plugin::Dumper

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2003, 2008 Richard Clamp All Rights Reserved.

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

SEE ALSO

       Template::Plugin::Dumper