Featureless Linux Library Specification

The version date of this specification is 2023/07/14.

This specification provides no restrictions on the vocabulary.

IKI is a minimally structured WIKI-like syntax meant to be simpler than WIKI syntax.

The IKI syntax provides a vocabulary name (with specific context associated with it) followed by quoted code that is associated with the given vocabulary name. The vocabulary represents a list of allowed variable names that may also have specific contextual meaning defined by a given IKI specification. The variable name is considered the Object. The variable value is considered the Content.

The IKI format will use iki-0000 to represent an IKI with no explicitly defined vocabulary. Whereas iki-0001 and beyond represent a specific IKI vocabulary.

A potential IKI variable name starts on word (or _, -, +) characters. White space and non-word (and non _, -, +) character punctuations may not exist as part of the variable name. The only Unicode dash-like characters allowed as a "dash" are those intended to connect, such as the Unicode hyphens (U+2010 and U+2011).

Any valid IKI data may be escaped to make it treated as non-IKI data by prepending a backslash " before the colon code::" that is before the opening quote (single or double).

Unicode punctuation connector characters are supported just like _, except when they connect outside the current line (such as U+FE33 ︳). Unicode invisible punctuations (such as invisible plus: U+2064) are not considered a punctuations in this standard (because they a zero-width characters), therefore they are not to be considered a valid _, -, or + Unicode equivalents.

Key:

• \o = any printable word character, including _, -, + (and Unicode equivalents).
• \c = any character, including white space and non-printing, and any delimited quote (used as the opening quote) or a any quote (undelimited) not used as the opening quote.
• \q = either a single quote ' or a double quote ".
• \x = any character.
• \W = any non-word character, discluding _, -, + (and Unicode equivalents).
• \e = an optional escape sequence of any number of backslashes, such as \.
• * = zero or more occurrences.
• ~ = one or more occurrences, or zero if at start of file.

Before Structure:

• \x*\W~\*:*

Structure:

• \o\e:\q\c\q

After Structure:

Example File:

# fss-000c iki-0000

This is my sentence, anything can go here but sometimes I want to emphasis:"emphasize some text".

Other times I want to render a url such as this example url: url:'http://www.example.com/url with space/'.

There are no comments, except for maybe the FSS header (which would not resolve to any IKI syntax anyway).

Quotes may be included, such as: code:"const char *string = \"My \\\"quoted\\\" C string.\";".

The following emphasis\:"is escaped to not be treated as IKI data".

Example Results:

Objects would be:
  1) emphasis
  2) url
  3) code

Contents would be:
  1.1) emphasize some text
  2.1) http://www.example.com/url with space/
  3.1) const char *string = "My \"quoted\" C string.";