Strip - XML for humans and stuff

Strip is a markup language which makes writing XML by hand a more pleasant experience.

Overview

Tags

A tag is the first word on the line.

root

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root/>

In the spirit of the recent markup and template languages movement, the tag are nested into each other using semantic indentation.

root
  child
    grand-child

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <child>
    <grand-child/>
  </child>
</root>

Attributes

Attributes follow a tag, pretty much like in regular XML.

root attribute="value" another-one="value"

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root attribute="value" another-one="value"/>

The attribute delimiters are whitespaces.

Text

Text nodes are denoted by the pipe | character.

root
  | Hey, I'm a text node.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>Hey, I'm a text node.</root>

The text is automatically escaped and any further | characters are represented as is.