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… Continue reading @tuple – experimenting with lisp-like syntax as XML replacement
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Simple serialization with XML strings in Javascript
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:… Continue reading Simple serialization with XML strings in Javascript