Dash XML

“ It’s too simple — let’s turn it complex! ”

Introduction

This is one example about how Dash Markup can be used in practice.

Short proof of concept:

img - src res/dash-markup.svg --
br --
a - href //unseen-site.fun - target _blank -
  i -- Unseen-Site.Fun --
-

<img src="res/dash-markup.svg" />
<br />
<a href="//unseen-site.fun" target="_blank">
  <i>Unseen-Site.Fun</i>
</a>

With Dash Markup, your eyes & fingers will (hopefully) strain less on the syntax 😄

The word before the first single dash is treated as an XML tag.
For words between single dashes,
- the first word is attribute name,
- and the rest are together as attribute value.
If plain dashes are desired between these words, type 2 more dashes in place.
For a Dash Markup line that ends with a single dash,
- if there is a tag, this line will become an open tag;
- if this is a bare single dash, this line will close the previous tag.
For a Dash Markup line that ends with a double dash,
- if there is another double dash in line, words and dashes after that will become content of the current XML tag, and the tag is closed afterwards;
- otherwise, the tag will close itself as a void element.
Special cases for tags:
- If the “tag” is !-- , this line will become XML comment (  )
- If this “tag” starts with ! , it’s an Entity , closing will omit the slash.
- If this “tag” starts with ? , it’s a Declaration , will close with ?> .
- Typically:
```
!-- Comment --
!doctype - html --
?xml - version 1.0 - encoding UTF-8 - standalone no --
```
```

<!doctype html>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
```
Entity definition not supported intentionally due to complexity and security problems.

At the moment, omnisrv supports Dash XML, in plain text files ( .txt ).

There’s also a implementation in JavaScript/TypeScript in this repository . Note that the code is probably obsolete.

You can also try to write your own implementation by hand.