What is Gelatin?

Gelatin turns your text soup into something solid. It is a combined lexer, parser, and output generator. It converts text files to XML, JSON, or YAML. It is a simple language for converting text into a structured formats.

Development

Gelatin is on GitHub.

License

Gelatin is published under the MIT licence.

Contents

• Quick Start
  • Starting the transformation
  • Using Gelatin as a Python Module
• Common Operations
  • Generating XML attributes
  • Skipping Values
  • Matching Multiple Values
  • Grammar Inheritance
• Gelatin Syntax
  • Types
  • Statements
  • Output Generating Functions
  • Control Functions
• Python API
  • Gelatin.util module
  • Gelatin.compiler package
  • Gelatin.generator package