Simple Outline XML
Simple Outline XML (SOX) is a compressed way of writing XML.
SOX uses indenting to represent the structure of an XML document, eliminating the need for closing tags.
Example
The following XHTML markup fragment:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Sample page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>A very brief page</p>
</body>
</html>
... would appear in SOX as:
html>
xmlns=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml
head>
title> Sample page
body>
p> A very brief page
SOX can be readily converted to XML.
See also
- JSON is another simple outline language (which is also the base of similar associative array initializers in PHP).
- Haml is a meta-XHTML representation, originally implemented for Ruby and has a similar mark-up structure.
Sources
- http://www.langdale.com.au/SOX/
- http://web.archive.org/web/20071013205629/http://www.ibm.com:80/developerworks/xml/library/x-syntax.html
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