Zenithal Markup Language (ZenML)

Zenithal Markup Language (ZenML) serves an alternative syntax for XML. It is almost fully compatible with XML, and less redundant and more readable than XML.

This repository provides a script for converting ZenML to XML, together with the utility classes which help to transform XML documents.

This library is obsolete and no longer maintained. Use the TypeScript implementation instead.

Install from RubyGems.

gem install zenml

Note that the version of the syntax itself is independent of that of the processor.

• Version 1.0
• Version 1.1 (in preparation)

Create a ZenithalParser instance with a ZenML string, and then call parse method. This method returns a REXML::Document instance. If you want an XML string instead of a syntax tree, use formatters of rexml/document library.

The following example code converts a ZenML file to an XML file:

# the parser uses classes offered by rexml/document library
require 'rexml/document'
require 'zenml'
include REXML
include Zenithal
# read a ZenML source from a file
source = File.read("sample.zml")
parser = ZenithalParser.new(source)
File.open("sample.xml", "w") do |file|
  # create a formatter to output the node tree as a string
  formatter = Formatters::Default.new
  document = parser.run
  formatter.write(document, file)
end