[wp-hackers] Adding meta data to categories

[Benedict Eastaugh]

> If you're careful (and have smart users) you can even set up a
> human-readable syntax so you can just go in and type the info in the
> category description field directly. Actually, if you just formatted
> it in the wp_parse_args() style (and have appropriate metadata that
> would work with that format) then you could do it pretty quickly.

YAML might be a good option for a human-readable data format, although
the semantic whitespace could be tricky given that the tab key will
take them to the next field.

http://yaml.org/