--- test: One Element Mapping brief: | A mapping with one key/value pair yaml: | foo: bar php: | array('foo' => 'bar') --- test: Multi Element Mapping brief: | More than one key/value pair yaml: | red: baron white: walls blue: berries php: | array( 'red' => 'baron', 'white' => 'walls', 'blue' => 'berries', ) --- test: Values aligned brief: | Often times human editors of documents will align the values even though YAML emitters generally don't. yaml: | red: baron white: walls blue: berries php: | array( 'red' => 'baron', 'white' => 'walls', 'blue' => 'berries', ) --- test: Colons aligned brief: | Spaces can come before the ': ' key/value separator. yaml: | red : baron white : walls blue : berries php: | array( 'red' => 'baron', 'white' => 'walls', 'blue' => 'berries', )