nestedtext: Human readable and writable data interchange format.
NestedText is a file format for holding data that is to be entered, edited, or viewed by people. It allows data to be organized into a nested collection of dictionaries, lists, and strings. In this way it is similar to JSON and YAML, but without the complexity and risk of YAML and without the syntactic clutter of JSON. NestedText is both simple and natural. Only a small number of concepts and rules must be kept in mind when creating it. It is easily created, modified, or viewed with a text editor and easily understood and used by both programmers and non-programmers.
NestedText is convenient for configuration files, address books, account information and the like.
https://github.com/KenKundert/nestedtext
Example:
name: Katheryn McDaniel
address:
> 138 Almond Street
> Topika, Kansas 20697
phone:
cell: 1-210-555-5297
home: 1-210-555-8470
# Katheryn prefers that we always call her on her cell phone.
email: KateMcD@aol.com
additional roles:
- board member
