On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 04:14 pm, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Andy" == Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andy> I started writing it because, like you, I hate writing XML. Too
much
Andy> verbosity and itty-bitty-get-everything-in-exactly-the-right-place
Andy> nonsense. So I devised a stripped-down XML meta-syntax which is
easier
Andy> for humans to read and write, and a tool to "compile" it into XML or
Andy> whatever.
Dude, if you don't stop inventing languages, I'm gonna have to start
calling you meta-Andy. :)
This is cool.
Have you seen the LISP-XML? S
[snip]
You might also want to take a look at YAML <http://yaml.org/> -
there's a YAML.pm already in CPAN.
SOX <http://www.langdale.com.au/SOX/> and SLiP
<http://www.scottsweeney.com/projects/slip> are also interesting.
They're alternate XML syntaxes that use indentation (Python anyone)
Cheers,
Adrian (apparently alone in actually quite liking XMLs closing tags :-)
