Archie Markup Language (ArchieML)

Abstraction: NYT-created lenient markup language for structured data in Google Docs

Key points:

• Created at The New York Times to tag structured data in Google Docs for use in interactive news graphics, supporting concurrent editing by non-technical staff
• Key design choices: whitespace is not significant (unlike YAML), unstructured text is ignored without parse errors (unlike JSON/YAML), list notation uses asterisks instead of hyphens
• Supports key/value pairs, nested objects (dot-notation), regular arrays, "simple" flat arrays of strings, and "freeform" arrays that preserve order of mixed-type items
• Multi-line values delimited by :end; blocks can be skipped with :skip/:endskip; parsing halts entirely at :ignore
• Created by Michael Strickland, Archie Tse, Matthew Ericson, and Tom Giratikanon; parsers available in JavaScript (archieml-js npm) and Ruby

Connections: New York Times · Markup Language · Structured Data

Source: http://archieml.org/