Simple Outline XML
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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
- Haml is a meta-XHTML representation, originally implemented for Ruby and has a similar mark-up structure.
Sources
- Archive.org: Simple Outline XML: SOX
- Archive.org: IBM Developer Works > XML > XML Watch: Exploring alternative syntaxes for XML, Weighing the pros and cons
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