This package provides a number of functions to facilitate extracting information in YAML fragments from one or multiple files, optionally structuring the information in a data.tree'. YAML (recursive acronym for "YAML ain't Markup Language") is a convention for specifying structured data in a format that is both machine- and human-readable. YAML therefore lends itself well for embedding (meta)data in plain text files, such as Markdown files. This principle is implemented in yum with minimal dependencies (i.e. only the yaml packages, and the data.tree package can be used to enable additional functionality).