SNOT

Stack, Simple, Stupid, Straightforward or Silly Notation is a stack-based human-readable data-serialization language. It is inspired by XML, but aims to be simple(maybe it didn't work).

WIP: Missing implementation of string escape sequence greater than one character

Syntax

I was just thinking about trying to use as few symbols (or anything else as keywords) to represent things, so the language has no reserved keyword.

Therefore, any sequence of valid unicode characters that are not whitespaces, symbols used by language or starting with an arabic digit is an 'identifier', 'string' are enclosed in double quotes and support C-like escape sequence and has semantically the same meaning as identifiers, 'number' starts with a arabic digit and need to be in a valid format.

Ooh, whitespaces separate only the tokens, so indentation is not necessary if you do not want to use.

Identifier

each word in this phase is an identifier and this phrase must be recognized as a valid SNOT

String

"yeah, it's just ordinary string syntax\nHello World!" \
"but I thought of this syntax to make a multiline string"

Escape sequence	Description	Representation
\a	audible beil	0x07 in ASCII
\b	backspace	0x08 in ASCII
\e	escape character	0x1B in ASCII
\f	page break	0x0C in ASCII
\n	newline	0x0A in ASCII
\r	carriage return	0x0D in ASCII
\t	horizontal tab	0x09 in ASCII
\v	vertical tab	0x0B in ASCII
\\	backslash	0x5C in ASCII
\"	double quote	0x22 in ASCII
\?	question mark	0x3F in ASCII
\nnn	octal byte	any
\xhh	hexadecimal byte	any
\uhhhh	unicode code point	code point U+nnnn
\uhhhhhhhh	unicode code point	code point U+nnnnnnnn

Number

decimal     116104971163911532973211011710998101114
octal       0157143164141154
hexadecimal 0x706172652064652070656E73617220717565206EE36F
real        10210811197116.63

Symbols

The symbols used is:

, stack pop
; two stack pop
. three stack pop
( stack mark
) stack pop until stack mark
\ continue last stack token

Example

So with all of this you can write something like this:

glossary
  title "example glossary";
  GlossDiv
    title S;
    GlossEntry
      ID SGML;
      SortAs SGML;
      GlossTerm "Standard Generalized Markup Language";
      Acronym SGML;
      Abbrev "ISO 8879:1986";
      GlossDef 
        para "A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.";
        GlossSeeAlso GML, XML.
      GlossSee markup

Stack starts emtpy, when it finds any value token(identifier, string or number) its pushed into stack, but if stack peek token are a identifier or string(number is invalid), the previous token is turned into a "section" token, any tokens inserted after the section token in stack are inside that section and sections maybe inside other sections.

When finds a comma, semicolon or a period symbol the last 1, 2 or 3, respectively, tokens are popped from stack, soo you can insert more values into a section without create new sections.

But if 1, 2 or 3 pop is not enough for you, you can drop everything and use parentheses. The '(' symbol will add a token into the stack that is ignored by the rule that generates sections and ')' will pops until reaching the '(' token.

web-app
  (servlet
    servlet-name cofaxCDS;
    servlet-class "org.cofax.cds.CDSServlet";
    init-param
      configGlossary:installationAt "Philadelphia, PA";
      configGlossary:adminEmail "ksm@pobox.com";
  )
  (serverlet
    serverlet-name cofaxEmail;
    servlet-class "org.cofax.cds.EmailServlet";
    init-param
      mailHost mail1;
      mailHostOverride mail2
  )
  (serverlet
    serverlet-name cofaxAdmin;
    servlet-class "org.cofax.cds.AdminServlet"
  )

Usage

This library is self contained in a single header file and can be used either in header only mode or in implementation mode. The header only mode is the default when included and allows including this header in other headers and does not contain the implementation.

The implementation mode requires the macro SNOT_IMPLEMENTATION into .c file before #include:

#define SNOT_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "snot.h" /* or "snot.h" */

To make the implementation private to the file that generates the implementation:

#define SNOT_STATIC
#define SNOT_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "snot.h" /* or "snot.h" */

Sample code

#define SNOT_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "snot.h"

#include <malloc.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void *__grow(void *memory, size_t *size, size_t grow_size);
void __start_section(SNOT_PARSER *parser, size_t id, void *userdata);
void __end_section(SNOT_PARSER *parser, size_t id, void *userdata);
void __string(SNOT_PARSER *parser, size_t id, void *userdata);
void __number(SNOT_PARSER *parser, size_t id, void *userdata);

int main(void) 
{
    SNOT_PARSER *parser;
    SNOT_CALLBACKS cx;
    void *userdata = NULL;
    size_t file_size;
    const char *filename = "document.snot";

    cx.alloc         = malloc;
    cx.free          = free;
    cx.grow          = __grow;
    cx.start_section = __start_section;
    cx.end_section   = __end_section;
    cx.string        = __string;
    cx.number        = __number;

    parser = snot_create(cx, userdata);

    FILE *file = fopen(filename, "r");
    if (!file)
    {
        printf("cannot open %s\n", filename);
        return -1;
    }

    fseek(file, 0, SEEK_END);
    file_size = ftell(file);
    fseek(file, 0, SEEK_SET);

    while (file_size--)
    {
        // ASCII
        char c;
        fread(&c, sizeof(char), 1, file);

        // fill the parser each with character at a time
        SNOT_RESULT result = snot_parse(parser, c);
        switch (result)
        {
        case SNOT_OK:
            break;
        case SNOT_ERROR_NO_MEMORY:
        case SNOT_ERROR_INVALID_CHARACTER:
        case SNOT_ERROR_PARTIAL:
        case SNOT_ERROR_TOKEN_TYPE_UNDEFINED:
            printf("Error at %c(code: %d)\n", c, result);
            file_size = 0;
            break;
        }
    }
    fclose(file);

    snot_end(parser);
    snot_free(parser);

    return 0;
}

License

MIT