"Invisible XML"

[tbp1...@gmail.com]

"Invisible XML" is a project that is able to take any text document parseable by a context-free grammar and turn it into an XML document.  Then it could be processed by any XML tools in a processing pipeline and even turn the result back into a non-XML document.

The key insight is that a parser for the grammar of the document can output an abstract syntax tree, and any AST can be represented by an XML document.  From the announcement on xml.com:

"Invisible XML, as explained right here on XML.com, is a language for describing the implicit structure of data, and a set of technologies for making that structure explicit as XML markup. It allows you to write a declarative description of the format of some text and then leverage that format to represent the text as structured information."

See Invisible XML 1.0 has been released, and Invisible XML.

[Edward K. Ream]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 5:29 PM tbp1...@gmail.com <tbp1...@gmail.com> wrote:

"Invisible XML" is a project that is able to take any text document parseable by a context-free grammar and turn it into an XML document.  Then it could be processed by any XML tools in a processing pipeline and even turn the result back into a non-XML document.

What will they think of next...

Edward