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OATS
Output Agnostic Tagging System aka. OATS implemented in Lua.
Format
Overview
- Tree structure like XML
- No attributes, only children
- No namespaces
- Nesting by Indentation
Nodes are enclosed with square brackets
[document]
Nested elements are indented
[document]
[nested-tag]
nested text
Multi-line text nodes are yet to be decided. As of now, the options are:
- Consecutive non-empty lines of text are merged with a space
- Any non-empty text line is always a single text element
Note: Consumers may have a better understanding of whether and how to join text elements together, while the interpreter would have to decide on a joining strategy (most likely concatenation with a space character in between).
Conventions
OATS is a very simple format without many restrictions. Nevertheless, the following suggestions are provided to ensure some reasonable degree of uniformity between applications:
OATS tag names preserve case, but applications consuming OATS structures should generally ignore case.
Tag names should use lowercase kebab-case.