ArchieML - Data notation

ArchieML is a data notation created in 2015.

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ArchieML (or "AML") was created at The New York Times to make it easier to write and edit structured text on deadline that could be rendered in web pages, or more specifically, rendered in interactive graphics.

Tags: dataNotation
Early development of ArchieML happened in The New York Times

Example from the web:

[days]
* Sunday
note: holiday!
* Monday
* Tuesday

Whitespace is still fine around the '*'
  *   Wednesday

* Thursday

Friday!
* Friday
* Saturday
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[+books]
kicker: Books you should read

score: ★★★★★!!!
title: Wuthering Heights
author: Emily Brontë

title: Middlemarch
author: George Eliot
score: ★★★★☆
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Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Semantic Indentation	X	AML ignores all whitespace not within a value. We believe this makes it easier for non-programmers to use, and is essential for use in environments with non-monospaced fonts, like in Google Documents.