Programming Languages

SDLang - Simple Declarative Language

SDLang - Simple Declarative Language

SDLang is a simple and concise way to textually represent data. It has an XML-like structure – tags, values and attributes – which makes it a versatile choice for data serialization, configuration files, or declarative languages. Its syntax was inspired by the C family of languages (C/C++, C#, D, Java, …).

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// This is a node with a single string value
title "Hello, World"

// Multiple values are supported, too
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// Nodes can have attributes
author "Peter Parker" email="peter@example.org" active=true

// Nodes can be arbitrarily nested
contents {
	section "First section" {
		paragraph "This is the first paragraph"
		paragraph "This is the second paragraph"
	}
}

// Anonymous nodes are supported
"This text is the value of an anonymous node!"

// This makes things like matrix definitions very convenient
matrix {
	1 0 0
	0 1 0
	0 0 1
}

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