Structured Data & Schema· Topic 04 · Definition
TOML
A configuration format with explicit types, so a date is a date and the word no stays the word no.
TOML (Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language) is a small configuration format built around unambiguous types. A date literal is a date, a quoted string is a string, and the same file parses identically in every language that supports the spec. That is why Rust's Cargo, Python's pyproject.toml and Hugo all settled on it. On an AI-readability site its job is narrower than it first looks: it is the shape to hand your own tooling when page metadata has to be read without guessing, not a format an answer engine asks for.
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