CML - is a text-based object representation data format.
Its nearest analogs are YAML, XML and JSON.
The main features that distinguish CML from competitors are:
- CML stores explicit type information,
- Its data formats are not limited to tree-like structures, CML can store arbitrary cross-references,
- CML has simple, obvious and unambiguous syntax ideally suitable both for a human reader and computer parsing.
This repository contains libraries for
- JavaScript,
- Java
- and C that helps both read and write CML files in STAX and DOM modes.
Here is a simple CML example:
Menu.file
caption "File"
items:
Command.new
caption "New..."
hotkey "Ctrl+N"
Command.open
caption "Open..."
Divider
Submenu.recents
caption "Recent files"And here is a more complex example showing all CML features
; this is a comment line
Polygon ; <- class name of root object
description "A test polygon" ; <- a string field
scale 1.5 ; <- a floating-point number field
visible + ; <- a boolean field
pivot Point ; <- a field containing a nested object of class Point
x 100 ; <- this nested point has two integer fields x and y
y 42
points: ; <- another field of root polygon containing an array
Point ; <- array contents - three point objects
x -10
y 0
Point.p1 ; <- this is a named object p1
x 10
y 10.5
Point
x 0
y 0
focused=p1 ; <- this field is a *reference* to the Point.p1
background# 177 ; <- this field contains binary data
R0lGODdhGAAgAKIAAAAAAIAAAICAgMDAwP8AAP
///wAAAAAAACwAAAAAGAAgAAAEfpDISau9VhTM
6/hdSAybyBWleaGDuhatOwkkLE8wGd8FnfK6m0
RnExJ6IOPAZyQIfD/X87O7PafCJVVg4jqXtI+X
E74KAACzJwk2n9Hn8PYpoVMG8LjblE8L32dVKg
FTAUpaY1JLAEuGUmlocDJvkX6PlZZSAWiERgIB
hIIVEQA7
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