Tag: data-format

@tuple – experimenting with lisp-like syntax as XML replacement

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Motivation The following post describes an experimental format which has a lisp-like syntax, with hints of JSON, for storing tree-structured data as text. The main motivation was a need to have a less verbose alternative to XML, but still be readable and editable, support pattern matching and transformation, include common binary datatypes, and enable structural…

Simple serialization with XML strings in Javascript

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Introduction Included in this post are some quick and simple functions for doing XML serialization in Javascript through strings. Reserved XML characters < > & ‘ ” are escaped from input and if any invalid input are found an exception will be thrown. List of XML utility functions: toXmlHeader() – Creates the XML header. toXmlElem(name:…