dalet/specification/daletl.md

Daletl specification for Dalet v1.0-preview

Data format

Daletl must be serialized as DaletPack. All data transfer between server and client is done in this format.

Root

Daletl root is array of tags. For convenience, we will use the json5 representation of the data.

[]

Tag

All tags specification is in Tags.

Each tag may be one of four types:

Data Representation

As array of 1-3 elements

1. Tag id
2. Tag body (optional if argument is null)
3. Tag argument (optional)

Tag id is integer number.

Body can be only a string, null, array of tags or tag (equals to array of tags with 1 tag).

Argument can be number or string.

Heading example

[1, "This is heading", 1]

Unordered list example

[
  4,
  [
    [0, "Item 1"],
    [0, "Item 2"],
  ],
]

As string

String becomes element tag.

"Element"

equals to

[0, "Element"]

As array of tags

If array not started with a number. The implication is that this turns into an “element” tag

["Element", [1, "Heading"]]

equals to

[
  0,
  [
    [0, "Element"],
    [1, "Heading"],
  ],
]