Idea: Standard Recipe Format

So, I was on my thinking chair (read: toilet) this morning and had a though enter my head: “What will reading recipes be like ten years from now? Will it be on a phone, a small computer made for the kitchen? Something else?”

I have a feeling that, to some extent, we will be reading recipes from a screen of some kind. If this comes true, wouldn’t it be nice to have some standard format in which a recipe is stored? I’m thinking a standard XML (extensible markup language) format I’d like to call RML (recipe markup language) that could be created, modified, and viewed on any sort of device, sort of like how there’s a thousand different ways to use twitter, but it’s still standard, except it’s a file rather than an online service. These recipe files could either stored on someone’s iPhone or other device, internet enabled or not, or simply downloaded onto a device whenever needed. Each device or application would be able to display each recipe consistently, independent of the source of the recipe file, whether it be from some online service or right on the device being used.

Any ideas out there?