Good find! Major points from your notes:
* use of a graph data model rather than a tree
* node addressing and references
* element-attribute isomorphism
I found these intriguing enough to looke closer.
Here are some points from the web site:
* Design of the abstract data types preceded
design of the syntax.
* Individual elements (nodes) may be named,
allowing fine-grained node addressing
* Datatypes are first-class syntactic literals.
<node value=true> defines a boolean.
<node value=23> defines a numeric
* A binary file format is defined for fast
parsing and validation.
--Hmmm. Double-edged sword here. The ease of
accessing and editing XML is, like HTML, a
large part of its popularity.
* Most of the concepts are redefined in terms
of modern programming languages such as Java
rather than in terms of markup text processing.
--Got my vote. Wonder what it means...
Jack Park wrote:
>
> Found this at freshmeat.net this morning.
> http://www.inxar.org/ <http://www.inxar.org/>
>
> "RSL is a new structured information language descended from SGML and
> XML.
> RSL is different from XML in several fundamental ways including the
> use of a
> graph data model rather than a tree data model, node addressing and
> references, and element-attribute isomorphism. Read more at the RSL
> Homepage
> <http://www.inxar.org/rsl> "
>
> "The intent of RSL is to promote structured information sharing. The
> goal is
> to create a concrete framework for the authorship and utilization of
> strongly-typed data. An XML-like language is defined as well as a set
> of
> supporting software components and communication protocols.
> Essentially, RSL
> is an effort to create a "web" from a data-centric point of view. "
>
> It's GPL. It's probably worth a look-see.
> Jack
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