Markup without the Markup
While my research has been anything but thorough, I’ve discovered two gems: YAML and OGDL. To get an idea of how these forms of anti-markup data representations, let’s take a simple example: a Maven project.xml file. You can find an example at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/jingdao/jingdao/project.xml?rev=1.7&view=markup
Here’s the equivalent using YAML:
pom version : 3
id : jing-dao
name : Jing DAO Framework
current version : 0.6.5
organization : { name: JadeTower,
url : http://jadetower.org,
logo: /images/jadetower-logo.png }
inception year : 2003
package : org.jadetower
logo : /images/jing-logo.png
description : Java Based DAO Framework
url : http://jingdao.sourceforge.net
issue tracking url :
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=75092\&atid=542902
site address : jingdao.sf.net
distribution directory : /home/groups/j/ji/jindao/htdocs/dist
mailing lists :
- name : JingDAO Developer List
subscribe : http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jingdao-devel
unsubscribe : http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jingdao-devel
archive : http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=35345
developers :
- name : J Aaron Farr
id : farra
email : [email protected]
organization : JadeTower
roles : [ Java Developer ]
dependencies :
- group id : avalon-framework
artifact id : avalon-framework
version : 4.1.4
url : http://avalon.apache.org/framework
properties : { jar.include: true }
- group id : excalibur-configuration
artifact id : excalibur-configuration
version : 1.0
url : http://avalon.apache.org/excalibur
properties : { jar.include: true }
- group id : commons-beanutils
artifact id : commons-beanutils
version : 1.6.1
url : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/beantutils
properties : { jar.include: true }
- group id : commons-logging
artifact id : commons-logging
version : 1.0.3
url : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/logging/
properties : { jar.include: true }
- group id : commons-collections
artifact id : commons-collections
version : 2.1
url : http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections
properties : { jar.include: true }
- group id : picocontainer
artifact id : picocontainer
version : 1.0-beta-3
url : http://picocontainer.org
properties : { jar.include: true }
- group id : bsh
artifact id : bsh
version : 1.3.0
url : http://www.beanshell.org
properties : { jar.include: