Conditional Markup Language

The Conditional Markup Language is primary designed for description files in package and build systems.

Detailed information about the format can be found in the Format.md document.

Advantages

The following list shows the advantages of CML compared to already existing markup languages:

• Less verbose syntax
• Single and multi line comments
• Conditional include of object keys
• Escape sequences in strings start with ^ instead of \ resulting in readable Windows paths

Example

/*
 * This example describes a package called Core.Collections.
 */

name: "Core.Collections"
version: "1.0-beta"
description: "
  This package contains basic collections like maps, sets and lists.
  For more information see page XYZ.
"

sources:
- "src/collections.c"
- "src/lists.c"
- "src/maps.c"
- "src/sets.c"

dependencies:
  Core: "2.0"

[OS == "Windows"]
dependencies:
  Core.Windows: "2.0"
  Api.Windows: "1.0"