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ANSEML is ANother S-Expression Markup Language inspired by XML format.

The library provides a simple API to work with documents and a tool to convert the document to HTML format.

The document format is pretty straightforward.

• Each ANSEML document has exactly one single root element, which encloses all the other elements.
• Each element may or may not have a set of attributes.

More specifically, the format is following:

(:tag-name
    attr-map?
    body)

Where attr-map? is an associative array of { key value } pairs,
where key is keyword and value is one of the following primitives: string, integer, float; and body contains zero or more primitives or enclosed elements.

Here are few examples:

(:root
    { :id "Root" }
    "Here is a number:" 123
    "And here is the text:"
    (:text
        "Some text")
    :br
    (:text
        "Another text"))

Note that you don’t need to put parenthesis around the element consisting only of a tag-name.