NestedText
NestedText
NestedText, an organization of data, meant for humans and computers to read. Not all formats are available, e.g. dictionaries, lists, and strings, with no quoting or escaping, except integer, real, date, etc. Surprisingly, there are still 3000 downloads per month.
Ways to download and use it
Online Discussion Related to It
An example from NestedText Docs
# Contact information for our officers
Katheryn McDaniel:
position: president
address:
> 138 Almond Street
> Topeka, Kansas 20697
phone:
cell: 1-210-555-5297
home: 1-210-555-8470
# Katheryn prefers that we always call her on her cell phone.
email: [email protected]
additional roles:
- board member
Margaret Hodge:
position: vice president
address:
> 2586 Marigold Lane
> Topeka, Kansas 20682
phone: 1-470-555-0398
email: [email protected]
additional roles:
- new membership task force
- accounting task force
An interesting drawback:
worker_processes: 1
events:
worker_connections: 1024
http:
include: mime.types
default_type: application/octet-stream
sendfile: on
keepalive_timeout: 65
server:
listen: 80
server_name: localhost
This can be processed by both NestedText and Yaml! You might want to go with yaml just because of the large development community.
References
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