Recfiles - Data notation

Recfiles is a data notation created in 2009 by Jose E. Marchesi.

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recfiles is a file format for human-editable, plain text databases. Databases using this file format can be edited using any text editor. recfiles allow for basic relational database operations, typing, auto-incrementing, as well as a simple join operation. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: dataNotation
Early development of Recfiles happened in Free Software Foundation
Recfiles is written in C, Bourne shell, Make, sed, Tex, CSS, Lex, M4, Yacc, Python
Read more about Recfiles on the web: 1.
1 PLDB concepts link to Recfiles: SUSN

Example from the web:

%rec: Book
%mandatory: Title
%type: Location enum loaned home unknown
%doc:
+ A book in my personal collection.

Title: GNU Emacs Manual
Author: Richard M. Stallman
Publisher: FSF
Location: home

Title: The Colour of Magic
Author: Terry Pratchett
Location: loaned

Title: Mio Cid
Author: Anonymous
Location: home

Title: chapters.gnu.org administration guide
Author: Nacho Gonzalez
Author: Jose E. Marchesi
Location: unknown

Title: Yeelong User Manual
Location: home

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Comments	✓	# Blah blah… # Unlike some file formats, comments in recfiles must be complete lines. You cannot start a comment in the middle of a line.
Semantic Indentation	X