Unotal

Unotal is a syntactical framework similar to, e.g., XML. To someone who knows XML, Unotal can be described as a variant of XML , where elements are called “rooms”, room types are prefixed by an ampersand "&", rooms do not need to have end-tags, and attribute values might be structured just as element contents can be structured in XML. A room might have multiple types or no type, and an attribute name might have multiple values. Strings with special characters are written between brackets "[]" in Unotal, while Strings made only of letters do not require brackets.

Here is a simple example of a Unotal room:

A Unotal room

< &lesson lang=en title=Unotal
  < &paragraph 
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General Articles about Unotal

>721951 Unotal in 50 seconds
>721719 Unotal Examples

Specifications

Specification of the Unotal -Syntax: https://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/html/unotal.html; https://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/ascii/unotal.txt; https://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/unotal/unotal.uno

Unotal Implementations

>722005 Junotal — The Java implementation of Unotal

Unotal Applications

>722069 Joodo (an chores manager in Java using Unotal as its file format.)
>721925 Garpagal (an internal application of Unotal )
>721968 Writing XML with Unotal (the converter itself is not yet published)
>721956 bookmark management with Unomarks (this now has been integrated into Garnoo)

Other Data Languages

>721993 Unotal compared to S-expressions
>721954 Unotal compared to YAML ™
>721970 Representation of data with XML

Special Topics

>721977 The meaning of attributes in Unotal-R (obsolete, needs a revision)

Articles in German Language

>721961 Unotal in 50 Sekunden
>721971 Datendarstellung mit XML
>721992 Unotal verglichen mit S-Ausdrücken

Acknowledgements

In 2005, Sebastian Biallas and Stefan Reuther provided helpful remarks regarding the escape sequences in Unotal string literals.

The blame for any mistakes is still Stefan Rams alone