Fiction Markup Language: Years ago I wrote about an idea called Fiction Markup Language. I said:
When is someone going to come up with Fiction Markup Language — an XML spec solely for annotating fiction?
Well, today I got an invite to a Google Group on this. Russell Warner is actually giving it a go, as detailed here. He seems to have a good start on it as well. There’s a snippet of markup in there which looks really promising.
When is someone going to come up with Fiction Markup Language — an XML spec solely for annotating fiction? For example: Take perhaps the greatest novel ever written: Ian Fleming's 1953 classic "Casino Royale." Let's break this down from a big chunk of text to make up something more…