Comments on codebytez: SEXML

The big reason to use SEXML for me was to easily p...

2006-06-03T21:34:00.000-04:00

The big reason to use SEXML for me was to easily pass it in a URL, ie. http://blogger.com/do?a=test{one{}two{}}

What if you replace curly braces by newline+indent...

2006-06-02T10:10:00.000-04:00

What if you replace curly braces by newline+indentation? You'd have... YAML!

Which is a great alternative to XML, too.

html ( body ( pre ( This is in, i (ita...

2006-06-01T23:46:00.000-04:00

html (
body (
pre (
This is in, i (italics)
)
)
)

html (
body (
pre (
This
is
in,
i (italics)
)
)
)

Actually, I have updated the format to use braces and replaced commas with {}

So the above becomes:
html { body { pre {
This is in {} i { italics }
} } }

I also have a parser less than 100 lines in java which supports entities. Eg: < &rt; for { }

Here are two not-quite-valid xhtml documents. Plea...

2006-06-01T14:49:00.000-04:00

Here are two not-quite-valid xhtml documents. Please convert them to your SEXML format.

<html><body><pre>This is in <i>italics</i>.</pre></body></html>

<html><body><pre>This
is
in
<i>italics</i>.</pre></body></html>

I think you'll discover a weakness in your proposed format.

I find your proposal interesting but you still nee...

2006-06-01T03:23:00.000-04:00

I find your proposal interesting but you still need a CDATA-like mechanism since without it you cannot include the parenthesis as legal content.

Maybe an escape mechanism a-la C \( \) could suffice.