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Entry 1498

Via the Daily Python-URL, IBM developerWorks: XML Matters: Intro to PYX, by David Mertz.

XML is a fairly simple format. ... Nonetheless, there are still enough rules in the XML grammar that a carefully debugged parser is needed to process XML documents -- and every parser imposes its own particular programming style. An alternative is to make XML even simpler. The open-source PYX format is a purely line-oriented format for representing XML documents that allows for much easier processing of XML document contents with common text tools like grep,sed, awk, wc, and the usual UNIX collection.

The PYX format is a line-oriented representation of XML documents that is derived from the SGML ESIS format. PYX is not actually XML, but it is able to represent all the information within an XML document in a manner that is easier to handle using familiar text processing tools. Moreover, PYX documents can be transformed back into XML as needed. PYX documents are approximately the same size as the corresponding XML versions (sometimes a little larger, sometimes a little smaller), so storage and transmission considerations differ little between XML and PYX.

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