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