Orderly is a textual format for describing JSON. Orderly can be compiled into JSONSchema. It is designed to be easy to read and write.

This repository contains lots of different things:

• Documentation and a grammar for the textual schema language, orderly. (see docs.md)
• A reference implementation of a parser than can cross compile between JSONSchema and Orderly
• The orderly-json.org website (see the website branch)

Many people have offered feedback and ideas which shaped this project. Those people include (in alphabetical order):

• Alexandre Morgaut
• David Grigsby
• Greg Olszewski
• Hatem Nassrat
• Steve Spencer
• Tatu Saloranta
• Toby Inkster
• Zach Carter

• (2009.10.02) "v-1" -- The idea for orderly was "first uttered":http://trickyco.de/2009/10/02/orderly-jsonschema
• (2009.10.05) "v0" -- "orderly-json.org":http://orderly-json.org was erected and a more fully baked proposal put together thanks to feedback.
• (2009.10.07) "v1" -- editorial review, small additions
• (2009.12.24) "v2" -- Major revisions. Complete reference implmeentation.

All the cruft you find here is covered under a BSD style license, even if it's not approprately marked. The act of forking this project on github is implicit permission to pull back your contributions and redistribute them under this same license.

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