the good alex said:
>   Do you actually have a spec or document describing
>   ZML anywhere?

eww, please!  those capital letters
stab my eyes and make 'em bleed!


>   Do you have a sample _implementation_ I can try,
>   rather than just some output?

i was planning on sending you the beta version of
my text-editor authoring-tool tomorrow, but maybe
i can move that up to today.  if anyone else wants to
do some testing for me, please send a backchannel...

in the meantime, alex, you can get started here:
>   http://www.z-m-l.com

the link there will take you here:
>   http://www.z-m-l.com/go/vl3.pl

for any one of those example books, you can view
the .zml, or click the button to do its conversion...

of particular interest would be the "11 rules of z.m.l."
>   http://www.z-m-l.com/go/vl11.zml

that's a very old version.  but not much has changed.

after that, you can look at the test-suite:
>   http://www.z-m-l.com/go/test-suite.zml

-bowerbird