Struxt
Encyclopedia
Struxt is a human-readable
data
format designed to be structurally equivalent to XML
yet representationally similar to C
-style programming languages.
'Struxt stands for "Structured Text".
and the IDE
tools of many high-level languages.
Alternatively:
) but differs fundamentally in that Struxt provides an exact but alternative representation of any XML document.
Other human-readable serialization formats include:
Human-readable
A human-readable medium or human-readable format is a representation of data or information that can be naturally read by humans.In computing, human-readable data is often encoded as ASCII or Unicode text, rather than presented in a binary representation...
data
Data
The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...
format designed to be structurally equivalent to 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....
yet representationally similar to C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
-style programming languages.
'Struxt stands for "Structured Text".
Features
Struxt syntax is designed with the same goals as XML yet be easily created and read by humans while leveraging the machine-readable toolset of XMLXML
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....
and the IDE
Integrated development environment
An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...
tools of many high-level languages.
Sample document
note: to: "Tove". from: "Jani". heading: "Reminder". body: "Don't forget me this weekend!".
Alternatively:
note {
to: "Tove".
from: "Jani".
heading {"Reminder"}
body {"Don't forget me this weekend!"}
}
Attributes
Attributes are specified as a comma-separated list of name-value or value-name pairs.
html lang "en", "RTL" dir:
head{title:"My Struxt".}
body:
a "/nicerobot/text-plain/wiki/Struxt":"Struxt".
Advanced components of Struxt
Struxt doesn't require closing tags at the end of the document. This facilitates limited streaming of content into a document. To facilitate terse documents and demonstrated by the HTML example above, one attribute name per tag (and per namespace) is optional for which the Struxt parser will provide the default name.XML and SDL
Struxt is syntactically similar to SDL (Simple Declarative LanguageSimple Declarative Language
The Simple Declarative Language is a cross-platform declarative programming language used for defining basic data structures such as lists, maps, and trees of typed data in a compact, easy to read representation....
) but differs fundamentally in that Struxt provides an exact but alternative representation of any XML document.
Bindings
Native implementations and bindings for Struxt exist for the following languages:- JavaJava (programming language)Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
- JavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....
- Go! (programming language)Go! (programming language)Go! is an agent-based programming language in the tradition of logic-based programming languages like Prolog. It was introduced in a 2003 paper by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark....
- Objective-CObjective-CObjective-C is a reflective, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.Today, it is used primarily on Apple's Mac OS X and iOS: two environments derived from the OpenStep standard, though not compliant with it...
- PerlPerlPerl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
- PHPPHPPHP 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...
- PythonPython (programming language)Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language whose design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python claims to "[combine] remarkable power with very clear syntax", and its standard library is large and comprehensive...
See also
- Comparison of data serialization formatsComparison of data serialization formatsThis is a comparison of data serialization formats, different ways to convert complex objects to sequences of bits. It does not include markup languages used exclusively as document file formats.-Overview:*a. The current default format is binary....
- List of lightweight markup languages
Other human-readable serialization formats include:
- AsciiDocAsciiDocAsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language. It requires the installation of a special AsciiDoc "converter program" that can convert AsciiDoc documents to XHTML, DocBook or HTML. DocBook in turn can be converted to other formats such as PDF, TeX, Unix manpages and many more using the tool A2X which...
- JSONJSONJSON , 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...
, the JavaScript Object Notation - OGDLOGDLOGDL , is a "structured textual format that represents information in the form of graphs, where the nodes are strings and the arcs or edges are spaces or indentation."...
- Plist, the object serialization format from NEXTSTEPNEXTSTEPNeXTSTEP was the object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer to run on its range of proprietary workstation computers, such as the NeXTcube...
- S-expressionS-expressionS-expressions or sexps are list-based data structures that represent semi-structured data. An S-expression may be a nested list of smaller S-expressions. S-expressions are probably best known for their use in the Lisp family of programming languages...
s - SDLSimple Declarative LanguageThe Simple Declarative Language is a cross-platform declarative programming language used for defining basic data structures such as lists, maps, and trees of typed data in a compact, easy to read representation....
- Simple Outline XMLSimple Outline XMLSimple Outline XML 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: Sample page A very brief page...
- Candle Markup, unified markup and object notation