Read a post today that used CSS like syntax for SVG, which got me thinking.

I'm a big fan of SVG. I love the declarative nature of the format ("Draw a circle" vs. "pixel, pixel, pixel"), as well as being able to write it in notepad.

On other other hand, like all XML dialects, it's a bit wordy. I can't find the link, but a while ago I read an article that showed how easy it is to map XML to Lisp.

Roughly, an XML node is a name with a list of attributes and children, where attributes are 2-element lists, and children are either nodes or strings.

<svg><circle x="40" y="40" r="17" /></svg>

(node "svg" () ((node "circle" (("x" "40") ("y" "40") ("r" "17")) ()))