VNSL-spec

Visual Novel Script Language’s specfication by RELAX-NG. VNSL is experimental mode.

What is VNSL?

VNSL is visual novel’s script language written in XML.

Namespace

Details

meta

• title - Work title

• author - work author

• releaseDate - released work date

character

define a character

• displayName - character’s display name

• familyName

• firstName

• birthday

• nickName

• actor - character’s actor

• drawer - character’s drawer

scene

define a scene

• bgm

• background

• place

• date

text

• character

• picture

• sound

• voice

example

<vnsl>
    <meta>
        <title>example story<title>
        <author>someone<author>
    </meta>
    <character displayName="Alice"></character>
    <scene>
        <background fileName="" />
        <line character="Alice" picture="alice.png" sound="">
            please put text.
        </line>
    </scene>
</vnsl>

Loadmap

• create <asset> tag

• ver1.0 release

• to renpy file(.rpy) converter