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RE: Alternative for XML

• Posted by Tommy Carlier <tommy.carlier at pandora.be> Oct 16, 2003
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Ray Smith wrote:
> Tommy Carlier wrote:
> > I've created a markup language as an alternative for XML. I call it SMEL 
> > 
> > 
> > (Some Modest Extensible Language). It behaves a bit like XML, but it's 
> > more 
> > compact, and has some advanced features that XML doesn't have. 
> 
> I don't know the finer details of XML ... but have you looked at YAML?
> 
> http://yaml.org  (seems to down at the moment)

Yes, I've looked at YAML, and it's a fine language. But it's not that 
flexible: it's focused on data-structuring, and not really suitable for 
document-structuring. And it's line-based, with indentation to define 
the hierarchy. In YAML, you can't create a complicated structure in only 
1 line.

If you want to create a compact data-structure, in SMEL you can use a 
Euphoria-sequence-looking structure:
{{"Just some data", "in tabular form"},{"with 2 rows", "and 2 columns"}}