sample.sdl

# This is the sample SDL document, included for convenince, from:
#   http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Language+Guide
# Note that the comments refer to the Java API, not the D API.

timespan 12:14:42
timespan 00:09:12
timespan 00:00:01.023
timespan 23d:05:21:23
timespan 23d:05:21:23.532

# Examples: Time Span Literals
hours 03:00:00
minutes 00:12:00
seconds 00:00:42
short_time 00:12:32.423 # 12 minutes, 32 seconds, 423 milliseconds
long_time 30d:15:23:04.023 # 30 days, 15 hours, 23 mins, 4 secs, 23 millis 
before -00:02:30 # 2 hours and 30 minutes ago
about_two_days_ago -2d:00:04:00 

# Examples: Date and Date/Time Literals
date 2005/12/05
date -2005/12/05
date 2005/12/05
#date_and_int 2005/12/05 7
here 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345
here 2005/12/05 14:12.345
est 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-America/New_York
in_japan 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-JST
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT+00:00
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT-00:00
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT+05:00
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT-05:00
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT+00:30
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT-00:30
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT+00
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT-00
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT+05
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT-05
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT+06:20
tz 2005/12/05 14:12:23.345-GMT-06:20

# three tags acting as name value pairs
first_name "Akiko"
last_name "Johnson"
height 68 68L 60l

# a tag with a value list
person "Akiko" "Johnson" 68

# a tag with attributes
person first_name="Akiko" last_name="Johnson" height=68

# a tag with values and attributes
person "Akiko" "Johnson" height=60

# a tag with attributes using namespaces
person name:first-name="Akiko" name:last-name="Johnson"

# a tag with values, attributes, namespaces, and children
my_namespace:person "Akiko" "Johnson" dimensions:height=68 {
    son "Nouhiro" "Johnson"
    daughter "Sabrina" "Johnson" location="Italy" {
        hobbies "swimming" "surfing"
        languages "English" "Italian"
        smoker false
    }
}   

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// (notice the separator style comment above...)

# a log entry
#     note - this tag has two values (date_time and string) and an 
#            attribute (error)
entry 2005/11/23 10:14:23.253-GMT "Something bad happened" error=true

# a long line
mylist "something" "another" true "shoe" 2002/12/13 "rock" \
    "morestuff" "sink" "penny" 12:15:23.425

# a long string
text "this is a long rambling line of text with a continuation \
   and it keeps going and going..."
   
# anonymous tag examples

files {
    "/folder1/file.txt"
    "/file2.txt"
}
    
# To retrieve the files as a list of strings
#
#     List files = tag.getChild("files").getChildrenValues("content");
# 
# We us the name "content" because the files tag has two children, each of 
# which are anonymous tags (values with no name.)  These tags are assigned
# the name "content"
    
matrix {
    1 2 3
    4 5 6
}

# To retrieve the values from the matrix (as a list of lists)
#
#     List rows = tag.getChild("matrix").getChildrenValues("content");