DNA is a plain text, easy-to-read and write data format.
DNA format consists of a list of indented key-value pairs. Objects (maps) are created by indenting key-values and lists (arrays) are created by repeating a key. Multiline strings are supported as values.
DNA format was initially created to store data of static websites, so it is called DNA. DNA format is inspired by XML, JSON, Properties files and Markdown and is similar to YAML and Jade.
Try this example in DNA Editor.
simple: This is a simple value.
object:
one: One
two: Two
three:
one: Three One
two: Three Two
multiline:
This is
a multi-line
string value.
list: First
list: Second
list: Third
DNA JavaScript library provides parse and stringify functions (similar to JSON) to read and write DNA format.
var object = DNA.parse(string);
var string = DNA.stringify(object);DNA is available on NPM as dna-js.
npm install dna-js --save
var DNA = require('dna-js');DNA CLI can be used to convert DNA format to JSON.
npm install -g dna-js
Run dna from command to see usage instructions.
Copyright (c) 2015 Ali Shakiba
Available under the MIT license