Slightly related: I did some work on a format with really homogenous and canonical syntax that is also low-noise and human-editable. It's based on a relational

Slightly related: I did some work on a format with really homogenous and canonical syntax that is also low-noise and human-editable. It's based on a relational representation, so also supports some integrity checks out of the box. I also experimented with specification of transformations to/from hierarchical representations, but I think the problem is that there are different possible approaches with their own pros and cons. http://jstimpfle.de/projects/wsl/main.html http://jstimpfle.de/projects/wsl/main.html http://jstimpfle.de/projects/python-wsl/main.html http://jstimpfle.de/projects/python-wsl/main.html Tell me what you think!