SXML - Data notation

SXML is a data notation created in 2001 by Oleg Kiselyov.

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SXML is an abstract syntax tree of an XML document. SXML is also a concrete representation of the XML Infoset in the form of S-expressions. The generic tree structure of SXML lends itself to a compact library of combinators for querying and transforming SXML.

Tags: dataNotation
S-expressions and XML influenced the design of SXML
SXML compiles to XML
See also: (1 related languages) LAML
Read more about SXML on the web: 1.
2 PLDB concepts link to SXML: LAML, SXPath

Example from the web:

(a (@
     (href "http://somewhere/"
       (@ (*parent* a-node))       ; <annotations> of the attribute 'href'
       )
     (@ (*parent* a-parent-node))) ; <annotations> of the element 'a'
   "link")

Example from the web:

(define Content '(
 (html:begin
  (Header
   (title "SXML")
   (description "Definition of SXML: ...")
   (keywords "XML, XML parsing, XML Infoset, XPath, SXML, Scheme")
   (long-title "SXML")
   (Links
    (start "index.html" (title "Scheme Hash"))
    (contents "../README.html")
    (prev "xml.html")
    (home "http://pobox.com/~oleg/ftp/")))

  (body
   (navbar)
   (page-title)
   (p "SXML is an instance of XML Infoset as S-expressions. SXML is an
Abstract Syntax Tree of an XML document.")
   (p (b "Revision: 2.0"))

   (TOC)

   (Section 2 "Introduction")
   (p
    "An XML information set (Infoset) ... XML Infoset is described in "
    (cite "XML Infoset") ". Although technically Infoset is specified for
XML, it largely applies to HTML as well.")
   (p
    "SXML is...")

   (Section 2 "Notation")
   ))))