LMXML

The Light Markup to XML is a markup intended to make writing xml or a recursive decent markup, easier. Head over to the wiki for an in-depth tour of what can be expected from this library.

Interested in the command-line app?

Let's take a simple html document for example.

HTML

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Test</title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="blah.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="main.css"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div class="page">
      <div class="content">
        Blah Blah Blah
      </div>
      <div id="footer">
        This is where the copyright goes.
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

Equivalent LMXML

html
  head
    title "Test"
    script @type="text/javascript" @src="blah.js"
    link @rel="stylesheet" @type="text/css" @href="main.css"
  body
    div .page
      div .content "Blah Blah Blah"
      div #footer "This is where the copyright goes."

The syntax

Indention is important
JSON-style attributes
Class attributes prefixed with "." and Id with "#"
Markdown Indirect link style templates
Indirect definitions are delimited from main document by ---

Example:

div #page
  [boilerplate]
  div .content
    div #footer
      [boilerplate]

[boilerplate]:
  div .signoff
    q "And this here is the good life."
    div .author "Philip Cali

Using The Library

Add it to your sbt build:

libraryDependencies += "com.github.philcali" %% "lmxml-core" % "0.1.3"

Plugins!

Each LMXML process (parsing, converting, transforming, etc), is designed to be extensible. Here's a list of each submodule and a link to each description:

lmxml-html: HTML Shortcuts
lmxml-template: File Templates
lmxml-json: JSON Transforms
lmxml-cache: Compile Cache
lmxml-markdown: Markdown

That's all for now.

Learn by Example

I have included an example app that uses all listed submodules (except lmxml-json).

Configuring LMXML with submodules L19-26
Using Configured LMXML L87
All the lmxml files in data/templates

To run, simply:

git clone git://github.com/philcali/lmxml.git
cd lmxml
sbt "project lmxml-example" run

Try it out at http://localhost:8080.

Try it on AppEngine!

You've got nothing to lose, really. Head on over the GAE try LMXML app, to try the thing out. Give you hands a break from writing all those closing tags.

License

MIT

philcali / lmxml 0.1.3