Compressed HTML for AI code generation. Fewer tokens, same output.
BHTML is the HTML module of BurnedLang — an experimental family of compressed symbolic languages designed for AI-assisted code generation.
Instead of writing verbose HTML tags repeatedly, an AI generates compact Unicode opcodes. A converter then expands them back into valid, standard HTML.
▢ → <div class="container">
♥ → <header>
★☆✦☀☁⌂My Site⌃✧✩ → Full HTML boilerplate
BurnedLang is not a new programming language. It is a symbolic compression layer — a shorthand that LLMs can generate efficiently, designed to be expanded deterministically back into normal code.
LLMs operate within token budgets. Traditional HTML is token-heavy:
<div class="container">
<header>
<nav>
<ul>
<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>Every repeated tag, attribute, and boilerplate fragment costs tokens. Over a large codebase, this adds up fast.
BHTML replaces the most frequent HTML patterns with single Unicode characters:
▢
♥
♝
→
↦△§index.html">Home▷↤
The AI generates far fewer tokens. The converter does the rest.
Human prompt
↓
AI generates BHTML (compact Unicode opcodes)
↓
bhtml.converter.py (string replacement, longest-first)
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Valid HTML output
Reverse mode is also supported — compress existing HTML into BHTML:
index.html → converter (--reverse) → index.bhtml
python bhtml.converter.py input.bhtml output.htmlpython bhtml.converter.py input.html output.bhtml --reverse- Python 3.7+
- No external dependencies
The dictionary file (bhtml.dictionary.json) must be in the same directory as the converter.
BHTML uses Unicode symbols as atomic opcodes. Each opcode maps to exactly one HTML fragment.
| Opcode | Expands to |
|---|---|
★ |
<!DOCTYPE html> |
☆ |
<html lang="en"> |
✪ |
</html> |
✦ |
<head> |
✧ |
</head> |
✩ |
<body> |
✫ |
</body> |
⌂ |
<title> |
⌃ |
</title> |
| Opcode | Expands to |
|---|---|
☀ |
<meta charset="UTF-8"> |
☁ |
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> |
☂ |
<meta name="description" content=""> |
✭ |
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> |
✯ |
<script src="script.js"></script> |
| Opcode | Expands to |
|---|---|
□ |
<div> |
■ |
</div> |
▢ |
<div class="container"> |
▣ |
<div class="card"> |
▤ |
<div class="row"> |
▥ |
<div class="col"> |
▦ |
<div class="grid"> |
▧ |
<div class="wrapper"> |
▨ |
<div class="content"> |
▩ |
<div class="sidebar"> |
▪ |
<div class="hero"> |
▫ |
<div class="footer"> |
| Opcode | Expands to |
|---|---|
♠ |
<section> |
♣ |
<article> |
♥ |
<header> |
♦ |
<footer> |
♜ |
<main> |
♝ |
<nav> |
| Opcode | Expands to |
|---|---|
◆ |
<form action="" method="post"> |
◌ |
<input type="text"> |
◍ |
<input type="password"> |
◐ |
<input type="email"> |
◈ |
<button type="submit"> |
⌗ |
<textarea> |
⌜ |
<select> |
| Opcode | Expands to |
|---|---|
¤ |
class=" |
¢ |
id=" |
§ |
href=" |
µ |
src=" |
¶ |
alt=" |
¬ |
placeholder=" |
Ë |
onclick=" |
| Opcode | Expands to |
|---|---|
Û |
required |
Ü |
disabled |
Ý |
readonly |
à |
checked |
Full opcode list: see
bhtml.dictionary.json— 130+ mappings total.
★
☆
✦
☀
☁
⌂My Page⌃
✭
✧
✩
▢
♥
<h1>Hello World</h1>
♡
♜
<p>Welcome to my site.</p>
♞
■
✫
✪
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>My Page</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<header>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
</header>
<main>
<p>Welcome to my site.</p>
</main>
</div>
</body>
</html>BHTML is built on a strict, simple model:
- String replacement only — the converter is not an HTML parser
- Longest match first — prevents partial replacements
- One opcode = one fragment — atomic, never merged
- Fully reversible — every
.bhtmlfile can be expanded back to valid HTML - JSON-driven — all mappings live in
bhtml.dictionary.json, nothing is hardcoded - No runtime — no interpreter, no compiler, no VM
Attribute opcodes replace the attribute name inside an HTML tag, not the tag itself.
✅ <div ¤card"> → <div class="card">
❌ □¤card" → <div>class="card" (broken!)
Pre-built layout opcodes (▣, ▢, etc.) already include their class — never append attributes to them.
BHTML/
├── bhtml.converter.py # CLI converter (BHTML ↔ HTML)
├── bhtml.dictionary.json # All opcode mappings
├── bhtml.skill.md # AI prompt skill (for LLM integration)
├── output.html # Example output file
└── README.md
BHTML is the first released module. Planned modules:
| Module | Target | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BHTML | HTML | ✅ Released |
| BCSS | CSS | 🔧 Planned |
| BJS | JavaScript | 🔧 Planned |
| BPY | Python | 🔧 Planned |
| BSQL | SQL | 💡 Concept |
| BJSON | JSON | 💡 Concept |
| BYAML | YAML | 💡 Concept |
- AI code generation with reduced token usage
- Prompt compression for large HTML codebases
- AI coding assistants generating boilerplate faster
- Tokenizer and compression research
- Educational experiments in symbolic language design
- BHTML is not meant for hand-editing in production
- Generated files should be expanded before manual maintenance
- The converter performs text replacement — it does not validate HTML structure
- Some complex custom attributes still require manual HTML syntax
BurnedLang is an experimental research project exploring symbolic source-code compression for AI systems.
It is not intended to replace HTML or any existing web standard. Its purpose is to reduce repetitive syntax overhead during AI-assisted code generation, while remaining fully reversible through deterministic converters.
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