Simple Encoding Notation
SEN (Simple Encoding Notation) is a simple minimal encoding notation. Drawing from JSON but less strict. A SEN parse must be able to parse JSON but should also ignore commas and should allow tokens to be read as strings where a token is a set of characters described by:
token = tokenStart [{tokenContinue}]
tokenStart = letter | "_" | "^" | "."
tokenContinue = tokenStart | digit | "-"
letter = [A-Za-z_^~.] | U+0080 - U+FFFFFFFF
digit = [0-9]Charcter encoding is Unicode and the stream or file encoding must be UTF-8. A UTF-8 BOM at the start of a sequence is allowed.
C style comments that start with a // sequence are allowed and
ignored.
Strings can also be delimited with a single quote character which
allows for a string to be either "abc" or 'abc'.
In all other aspects SEN is as described by the json.org description.
A valid example of a SEN document is:
{
one: 1
two: 2
array: [a b c]
yes: true
}
Which is the same as the following JSON:
{
"one": 1,
"two": 2,
"array": ["a", "b", "c"],
"yes": true
}