ftd
ftd
is an alternative to XML/JSON for storing data.ftd
is designed for humans to write data. It tries to be a minimal as possible, intuitive and readable, no quote character for strings, avoid indentation etc.-- record person: name: caption location: string bio: optional body -- person amitu: Amit Upadhyay location: Banglore, India Amit is the founder and CEO of FifthTry.
Consider this example. We have described our data, person
, and notice we have
type for each field. Notice also our types caption
, which like “heading of the
data”, body
, which lets people write multiline strings without worrying about
quoting or indentation etc.