On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:29:20AM +0900, Joshua Choi wrote: > I'm new to Ruby, and it really is fun. Right now, I'm playing with YAML... > > ...but one part of yaml.rb doesn't seem to work--it doesn't seem to > recognize any % directives > (http://yaml.org/spec/current.html#id2523453) like "%YAML 1.1" or > "%TAG ! tag:blah.com,2007:". > > Why might it not be working? Okay, so, the reason is: Ruby's builtin YAML library only does YAML 1.0 documents. I'm afraid I haven't worked on 1.1 support yet. So try the "Last Call" spec. If you're having a hard time with anything else, please send me word! _why