ELML - eLesson Markup Language

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FML: Fiction Markup Language

FML: Fiction Markup Language 01/16/2004 11:33 AM

When is someone going to come up with Fiction Markup Language — an XML spec solely for annotating fiction? For example:

Take perhaps the greatest novel ever written: Ian Fleming's 1953 classic "Casino Royale." Let's break this down from a big chunk of text to make up something more usable.

Obviously, you could mark the chapters and section numbers, but let's go further into the actual content of the narrative. Begin by surrounding all spoken text with tags. For example:

Perhaps you can have another attribute for "target" to identify to whom he's speaking. Then I could do an XPath query to find everything James Bond said to Vesper Lynd in the entire book.

And how about locations? Surround passages with their physical location, like the casino floor, Bond's hotel room, etc. (where appropriate — wouldn't work in all situations). I could then use XPath to find all the unique locations in the book (this would be great for the globe-hopping James Bond novels).

Identify "action" passages and mark them. How about the death of a character? Mark them so I can immediately find out where Le Chiffre was killed and read how it happened.

Introductions of characters are another thing. Mark the first appearance of each character so if I can't remember who someone is, I can go back and find where they first appeared and who they are.

I'm reading Tom Clancy's "Politika" right now, and I can hardly keep track of everyone. It'd be handy to be able to print a "report" showing who everyone is. (A good ebook client implementation of this would know what page the reader was on and not report anything past that page as to not spoil anything.)

Maybe mark the beginning and ending of pages as they appeared in the original publication. And have some way for an expert to insert commentary about the text.

James Bond novels are one thing, but imagine if someone did this for, say, "War and Peace". It would be like Cliffs Notes embedded in the text of the book.

There's unexplored potential here. I can't be the first person to think of this. (And another question: is this just an attempt to completely suck the soul right out of fiction? Should we just leave it the hell alone?)

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MRL (Markup Recipe Language)

MRL (Markup Recipe Language) 01/25/2004 08:35 PM
Web site updated

PHP Template Markup Language (ztml)

PHP Template Markup Language (ztml) 05/08/2004 10:36 AM
First alpha version released

Requirements for the Ink Markup Language
Published

Requirements for the Ink Markup Language
Published 01/22/2003 02:35 PM
22 January 2003: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released Requirements for the Ink Markup Language as a W3C Note. This data format represents ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus, and is used to input and process handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages. Read about the Multimodal Interaction Activity. (News archive)

Conflict Resolution Markup Language

Conflict Resolution Markup Language 11/07/2003 02:07 AM
Equiforum and CRML

W3c Gets Behind Speech Synthesis Markup
Language

W3c Gets Behind Speech Synthesis Markup
Language 09/09/2004 02:44 PM
CRM Assist Sep 9 2004 6:27PM GMT

Annotated Gel Markup Language Project

Annotated Gel Markup Language Project 01/29/2004 03:02 PM
Research Article Published

Recipe Exchange Markup Language

Recipe Exchange Markup Language 03/22/2005 06:23 PM
Dohh, reml-ref exe property says v0.5, but it is v0.6

Hate-pertext Markup Language

Hate-pertext Markup Language 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
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JFCML - JFC/Swing XML Markup Language

JFCML - JFC/Swing XML Markup Language 09/13/2004 01:09 PM
Project JFCML History

Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML)

Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) 09/23/2004 03:18 AM
SBMLToolbox 1.0.2 Released

Ink Markup Language Working Draft
Published

Ink Markup Language Working Draft
Published 03/06/2004 01:50 AM
2004-02-23: The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a second Working Draft of the Ink Markup Language (InkML). The InkML data format is used to represent ink entered with an electronic pen or stylus. Ink-aware Web applications can process and exchange handwriting, gestures, sketches, music and other notational languages. Visit the Multimodal Interaction home page. (News archive)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Recommendation 09/08/2004 11:00 AM
2004-09-08: The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. With the XML-based SSML language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. "SSML builds on the work of the pioneers in speech synthesis to provide application developers with a powerful and flexible means to deliver a high quality mix of synthetic and pre-recorded speech as part of interactive voice response services," said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon). Read the press release, testimonials and implementation report and visit the Voice Browser home page. (News archive)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Proposed Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Proposed Recommendation 07/15/2004 01:32 PM
2004-07-15: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 27 August 2004. With the XML-based SSML language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity. (News archive)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Candidate Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a
W3C Candidate Recommendation 12/18/2003 06:05 PM
2003-12-18: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 18 February 2004. With this XML-based language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity. (News archive)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Last
Call Published

Speech Synthesis Markup Language Last
Call Published 12/02/2002 07:24 PM
2 December 2002: The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.0. Comments are welcome through 15 January 2003. With this XML-based language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate. Read about the Voice Browser Activity. (News archive)

Features: Eat Drink Feel Good Markup
Language

Features: Eat Drink Feel Good Markup
Language 03/14/2005 05:44 PM
Aaron Straup Cope describes the pros and cons of making his Eatdrinkfeelgood Markup Language more RDF compatible.

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation 12/19/2003 06:24 PM
XMLMania.com Dec 19 2003 4:20PM ET

Data Center Markup Language finds home
in OASIS

Data Center Markup Language finds home
in OASIS 08/30/2004 05:17 PM
A proposed standard to enable integration, automation and better management of data center components this week will begin development under the direction of a new standards body - the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Version 1.0 Advances to W3C
Recommendation

Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
Version 1.0 Advances to W3C
Recommendation 09/11/2004 10:38 AM
XMLMania.com Sep 11 2004 1:48PM GMT

Magnetar Appoints Virtual Reality Markup
Language (VRML) Inventor to its Advisory
Board

Magnetar Appoints Virtual Reality Markup
Language (VRML) Inventor to its Advisory
Board 06/17/2004 11:39 AM
BC Technology Jun 17 2004 4:17PM GMT

Q: Markup format?

Q: Markup format? 03/14/2005 05:10 PM

Q: Which markup format do you use when posting?

Both Textile and Markdown are installed and I flip between them. When I want to post a lot of code without hassle I'll use Markdown because it seems smarter about that kind of thing. Most of the time, however, I want to just write so I'll use Textile; I find that it's a quick and mildly-intuitive way to access the various classes in my stylesheet for the myriad of things I do within this little block of space. Each has a purpose, so each gets used. I rarely enter raw HTML, and when I do it's typically to get around something broken in either markup format.

Et toi?

This entry was in Textile, for those keeping score. It is much easier to enter p(ps). or p(note). rather than <p class="ps"> or <p class="note">.

Simple markup

Simple markup 03/11/2003 11:53 AM

Timothy Appnel: I have a new appreciation for the elegeance and simplicity of XML markup. Not that I didn't have one before its just grown the size of the Empire state building and illuminated in neon.

Obviously, I'm currently embarking on a similar mission, and share Tim's appreciation for XML.  My goals, however, are much lower than Tim's: I'm not trying to create a full markup language.  I'm applying 80/20 whenever I can: e.g., unordered lists are enough.  The times when full functionality is required, I'll  personally use full XHTML.

I'm currently looking into textile for inspiration.

Markup in titles in RSS?

Markup in titles in RSS? 12/13/2003 08:14 AM

The RSS 2.0 spec and its predecessors may not say clearly enough if you can or can't include markup in titles. But I don't think you should include markup in titles. Titles are like file names (not exactly of course). They are a happy medium between software and people. Both must be able to read them and make sense of them, in all contexts, and do so easily. While it seems reasonable that a description may contain markup, it also seems reasonable that a title should not. So, if I were writing a validator for RSS, and encountered markup in a title, I'd warn the author that many processors would not be happy about this and it would be safer to strip the markup from the title.

Disclaimer: Scripting News is a weblog, not a spec. If you interpret it as a spec you will be making a mistake. I think I've said this quite a few times, but a few people still treat it as if I were writing a spec here. Not so. And not fair.

A postscript. I went back to see what the spec actually says, and it turns out it's not really a problem with the spec, rather with my recollection of what the spec says. Scroll to elem ents of item. It says descriptions may contain entity-encoded HTML. It doesn't say that a title may. So if that's the biggest problem people can find with the spec (which many were flaming about when I wrote it, it's not like they offered any help, btw) then it's a pretty damned good spec if you ask me.

Markup-TreeNode-1.1.0

Markup-TreeNode-1.1.0 11/12/2003 06:50 PM

Markup-Tree-1.1.0

Markup-Tree-1.1.0 11/12/2003 06:50 PM

Serenity through markup (ADTmag.com)

Serenity through markup (ADTmag.com) 10/02/2002 10:55 AM

W3C Markup Validator Upgraded

W3C Markup Validator Upgraded 05/06/2004 09:47 PM
2004-05-06: W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. The new release is easier to use and install. It features new documentation and navigation, and offers helpful explanations and recovery mechanisms instead of fatal errors. Managed by a team of volunteers and the W3C Quality Assurance Activity, and supported by a large community, this validator is the single most popular resource on the W3C Web site. Read the announcement. (News archive)

Keep 'em separated: Layout and markup.

Keep 'em separated: Layout and markup. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
So, my idea was to follow the nice development models that often exist at a platform level in UI architecture and apply them to the view components of a design pattern - particularly with an focus on extensibility. But I...

A myriad of markup systems

A myriad of markup systems 04/12/2004 11:15 PM

It's hard to avoid the legions of custom markup systems out there these days. Every Wiki has it's own syntactical quirks, while packages like Markdown, Textile, BBCode (in dozens of variants), reStructuredText offer easy ways of hooking markup conversion in to existing applications. When it comes to being totally over-implemented and infuratingly inconsistent, markup systems are rapidly catching up with template packages. Never one to miss out on an opportunity to reinvent the wheel, I've worked on several of each ;)

My most recent markup handling attempt has just been published as part of my SitePoint article on Bookmarklets (cl iché). It's a structured markup language in a bookmarklet: activate the bookmarklet to convert the text in any textarea on a page to XHTML. The syntax is ridiculously simple, and serves my limited needs just fine:

= This is a header

Here is a paragraph.

* This is a list of items
* Another item in the list

Converts to:

<h4>This is a header</h4>

<p>Here is a paragraph.</p>

<ul>
 <li>This is a list of items</li>
 <li>Another item in the list</li>
</ul>

The algorithm is simple, and easily portable to any language you care to mention:

1. Normalise newlines to \n, for cross-platform consistency.
2. Split the text up on double newlines, to create a list of blocks.
3. For each block:
   1. If it starts with an equals sign, wrap it in header tags.
   2. If it starts with an asterisk, split it in to lines, make each a list item (stripping off the asterisk at the start of the line if required) and glue them all together inside a <ul>.
   3. Otherwise, wrap it in a <p> tag provided it doesn't have one already.
4. Glue everything back together again with a couple of newlines, to make the underlying XHTML look pretty.

The bookmarklet comes in two flavours: Expand HTML Shorthand (the full version) and Expand HTML Shorthand IE, which loses header support in order to fit within IE's rippling 508 character limit. A more capable bookmarklet could be built using the import-script-stub method described in my article, but the implementation of such a thing is left as an exercise for the reader (I've always wanted to say that).

Incidentally, there's a very common bug in markup systems that allow inline styles that proves extremely difficult to fix: that of improperly nested tags. Say you have a system where *text* is bold and _text_ is italic; what happens when the user enters _italic*italic-bold_bold*? Most systems (and that includes Markdown, Textile and my home-rolled Python solution) use naive regular expressions for inline markup processing and will output vadly formed XHTML: <em>italic<strong>italic-bold</em>bold </strong>. To truly solve this problem requires a context-sensitive parser, which involves an unpleasantly large amount of effort to solve what looks like a simple bug.

New Generation of the W3C Markup
Validator Released

New Generation of the W3C Markup
Validator Released 11/26/2002 05:13 AM
26 November 2002: W3C is pleased to announce an upgrade to the W3C Markup Validation Service. Changes include improved result pages, accessibility fixes, restructured code and design, and more MathML, XHTML and SVG support. Feedback is welcome. The announcement names contributors and has release notes. (News archive)

Features: Extreme Markup 2004

Features: Extreme Markup 2004 09/15/2004 07:42 PM
James Mason files a brief recap of this year's Extreme Markup Languages conference.

Structural markup = Google power

Structural markup = Google power 10/29/2003 01:15 AM
Much has been said about PageRank, and how good or bad it is. One thing that is quite clear to...

XML Tourist: Mapping and Markup, Part 2

XML Tourist: Mapping and Markup, Part 2 12/29/2004 08:49 PM
In the final part of his XML Tourist column's exploration of GML, John E. Simpson introduces us to the component schema parts as well as to some GML software.

No lines of markup were harmed during
this process

No lines of markup were harmed during
this process 01/08/2004 08:37 PM
Yeah, new year, new looks, and the best part: Apart from inserting one single span on every page, no lines...

Mini ipod, maxi markup

Mini ipod, maxi markup 01/07/2004 05:39 PM
They seduce you, thrill you, and then they screw you. Neil McIntosh reports from the SteveNote, and brings us news of creative pricing: [The Ipod Minis will] cost $249 in the US, which works out at £138 at today's exchange...

Extreme Markup Languages 2004

Extreme Markup Languages 2004 01/01/2004 05:07 PM
Originally announced at XML 2003, the Call for Participation for Extreme Markup 2004 is now open. The conference will be held from 3-6 August in Montréal, Canada.

Enhancing Structural Markup with
JavaScript

Enhancing Structural Markup with
JavaScript 12/10/2003 09:07 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 10 2003 7:52PM ET

Text Analysis Markup System

Text Analysis Markup System 12/04/2003 10:45 PM
TAMS Analyzer 2.38b1 released
Grok Description matches for ELML - eLesson Markup Language
GrokA matches for ELML - eLesson Markup Language

ELML - eLesson Markup Language