SDLang, aka Simple Declarative Language, is a data notation created in 2011 by Sönke Ludwig.
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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.
// 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
}