DocLang

[bansp]

"DocLang is a constrained XML format built from the ground up for LLM
tokenizers"

DocLang is an XML format for 'unstructured content' for feeding to an
LLM. The markup generates a minimal number of LLM tokens.

• https://doclang.ai/
• https://github.com/doclang-project/doclang/
• https://github.com/doclang-project/doclang/blob/main/spec.md

Briefly mentioned by Jean Paoli at Balisage as being the wrong approach,
but has enough big-name backers that it will take a while for people to
notice.

Regards,

Tony Graham.

--
XML Division
Antenna House, Inc.

[bansp]

The above is a message that I reposted while in transfer, hence the wording.

I wonder, @raspberryjoy , what's your feeling on this one? Should we expect centres to accept data in this format?

[raspberryjoy]

I am not familiar with this format. Seems a very new standard (introduced in 2026), I guess it is still in its early stages of developer adoption.
Looks very promising though! . Saving context window tokens is really important for LLMs and having out-of-the-box RAG support is a big deal.

Markdown and JSON have obviously been the default industry standards up until now, but yes, we can definitely expect more platforms and centers to start accepting data in this format. History shows that a standard that is simple and easy to implement will almost always win out and become popular!