in reply to Poor Man's XML?

You could have a look at yaml, a terse yet powerful non-markup language. There is even a YAML module.

You example would look like:

stage-direction :Enter Fred, stage right speech : character: Fred text: > Hey everyone, what's up?

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Re: Re: Poor Man's XML?
by stefp (Vicar) on Jun 27, 2002 at 19:08 UTC
    On a line similar to YAML, there is also SOX. But no luck, the implementation is java based.

    -- stefp -- check out TeXmacs wiki