title: Spring to understand properties in YAML
body: <p>Did Spring abandon YAML to use as an alternative to .properties / .xml because of:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>[Spring Developer]: <em>...YAML was considered, but we thought that counting whitespace significant was a support nightmare in the making...</em> [reference from <a href="http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=62055&amp;highlight=yaml" rel="noreferrer">spring forum</a>]</p>
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  <p>I am confident YAML makes a lot of sense for properties, and I am using it currently on the project, but have difficulties to inject properties in a </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;property name="productName" value="${client.product.name}" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>fashion.</p>
  
  <p>Anything I am missing, or I should create a custom YamlPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer ?</p>