Dalet v1.0-preview

Dalet is a system through which it is possible to combine human readable markup language and small size of transmitted data. The system is divided into two stages and two languages.

Languages

Daleth

Daleth is a high-level language for humans. It can be translated into daletl, but daletl cannot be translated into daleth¹. It is only used for page creation by humans.

Daletl

Daletl is a low-level language for machines. It is used in data transmission, processing and generation. It is specifically optimized to transfer as little data as possible using json, messagepack² or daletpack³.

Stages

Stage 1 (optional)

In the first stage, the daleth language is parsed and converted to daletl. All tag names are replaced by the smallest possible names, so that they take up less space in json or messagepack, for example. This stage is not for data transmission.

Stage 2

At this stage, only daletl is used. This stage is used by programs for generation, modification and rendering. The data is transferred between the server and the client only in this stage.

Specification

References

In the first versions only. Detranslation is planned for the future for the sake of devtools. ↩︎
Daletl can be used through a variety of serialization formats. ↩︎
Daletpack is not created and is not used at the moment. It is planned for the future. ↩︎

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