>>>> support MMD-style metadata, which means (a) no start marker and (b) empty line
>>>> to mark the end of the metadata block. Would this be supported by the plugin?
>>>> --GB
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+>>>>> Since I allow all legal YAML, the only way to check if it is legal YAML is to use the YAML parser, by which time one is already parsing the YAML, so it seems a bit pointless to check before one does so. -- KA