Haml, the templating language created by fellow Torontonian Hampton Catlin, very quietly reached version 1.0 over the holidays. In case you’re not familiar …

Haml is a markup language that’s used to cleanly and simply describe the XHTML of any web document without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such PHP, ASP, and ERB, the templating language used in most Ruby on Rails applications. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding XHTML into the template, because it iself is a description of the XHTML, with some code to generate dynamic content.

If you’re looking for more, John Philip Green wrote an introductory article about Haml back in September, and Xavier Shay has a good set of examples up at RHNH.