Is there a native YAML library for iPhone?

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I'm considering using YAML as part of my next iPhone application, but I haven't been able to find an Objective-C library to use.

The Wikipedia page for YAML mentions one, but the link is dead.

Is there an Objective-C library that can parse YAML into native collection objects (NSArray, NSDictionary, etc...)?

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7 Answers

The Cocoa extensions for Syck are probably what you're looking for -- it's where the library that Shaggy Frog mentioned seems to be living these days.

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IF you are doing alot of c++ in your iPhone projects, then please have a look at yaml-cpp:

http://code.google.com/p/yaml-cpp/

  1. has native iPhone support (via it's cmake build system)
  2. has no dependencies beyond a good compiler and cmake
  3. is very c++ friendly (thus, the name) with solid documentation (see the wiki/HowToParseADocument page)
user_2866950

I found this right from YAML's front page. But it looks like it might be out of date (c. 2004?), and the CVS link doesn't work for me.

I would bet that it's just a thin wrapper around an underlying C library like this or this... C code being "native" code that the Objective-C compiler will grok.

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