Hypercontent Distribution Language

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HCDL (MIME type: text/hcdl), also known as the Hypercontent Distribution Language, is the standard binary language used in Web communications to end users. It is normally assembled on the server side using THCDL (textual HCDL), CSS, and Q-WebAssembly.

Some advantages of HCDL include:

Lightweight
Highly optimised
Reduced request load and page loading time due to preprocessing on the server side
On-the-fly parsing
Extreme modularity with numerous libraries
Native support in Q-Language-written Web browsers

Language

Example

HCDL
meta>
    title>Example Title;
<
header>
    header-l1>Title;
<
content>
    parag>attr>.red:.extra-class;HLLO
EXTRA TEXT;
    list>attr>unordered:.red;
        list-entry>whatever bold>text;;
    <
<

.red {
    color: red;
}

.extra-class {
    text-align: center;
}

fun onLoad() {
     Hcdl.selectElement(".extra-class").outer = parag {
         +"hello"
     }
}

The previous section would compile to:

HCDL
[0x1 META]
[0x1 TITLE]Title[0x2 TITLE]
[0x1 SCRIPT](Q-WebAssembly)[0x2 SCRIPT]
[0x2 META]
[0x1 HEADER]
[0x1 HEADER-L1]Title[0x2 HEADER-L1]
[0x2 HEADER]
[0x1 CONTENT]
[0x1 PARAG][0x1 ATTR].red:.extra-class[0x2 ATTR][0x1 COMPCSS DEDUPID=2114012]color:red[0x2 COMPCSS][0x1 COMPCSS DEDUPID=2941024]text-align:center[0x2 COMPCSS]Hi[0x2 PARAG]
[0x1 LIST][0x1 ATTR]unordered:.red[0x2 ATTR][0x1 COMPCSS DEDUPID=2114012][0x2 COMPCSS]Hi[0x2 LIST]
[0x2 CONTENT]