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Simple Outline XML is a compressed way of writing XML

XML

Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....

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SOX uses indenting to represent the structure of an XML document, eliminating the need for closing tags.

Example

The following XHTML

XHTML

XHTML is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language , the language in which web pages are written....

markup fragment:

Sample page

A very brief page

... 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.

JSON
JSON
JSON , or JavaScript Object Notation, is a lightweight text-based open standard designed for human-readable data interchange. It is derived from the JavaScript scripting language for representing simple data structures and associative arrays, called objects...

is another simple outline language (which is also the base of similar associative array initializers in PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

).
Haml
Haml
Haml is a lightweight markup language that is used to describe the XHTML of any web document without the use of traditional inline coding. It’s designed to address many of the flaws in traditional templating engines, as well as making markup as elegant as it can be...

is a meta-XHTML representation that integrates with Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...

and has a similar mark-up structure.

Sources

http://www.langdale.com.au/SOX/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-syntax.html

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