What good notations for deterministic context-free and visibly pushdown languages exist? Deterministic context-free languages (DCFL) and visibly pushdown languages (VPL) are both sets of formal languages between context-free languages (CFL) and regular languages (REG). Is there a readable notation that can be expressed in plain ASCII like Backus-Naur-Form for CFL and regular expressions for REG?
Regarding DCFLs, I do not see a better notation than the transition function of the deterministic pushdown automaton, i.e. writing explicitly rules of form $q,z,a\to q',\gamma$ with $q,q'$ states in $Q$, $z$ a stack symbol, $\gamma$ a sequence of stack symbols, and $a$ an input symbol or the empty string.  The notation itself does not enforce determinism, but it is easily checked.  Using a context-free grammar kind of notation (as BNF), you are going to run into problems since DCFLs are a proper subclass of CFLs, and as noted by DaniCL, you cannot decide in general given a CFG whether its language is deterministic.

Regarding VPLs, a bracketed/parenthesis-style for CFGs would be good enough, with rules of form $A\to a\alpha b$ where $A$ is a nonterminal, $a$ a call symbol, $b$ a return symbol, and $\alpha$ a sequence of regular expression over mixed internal symbols and nonterminals.  Since any VPL is also a (D)CFL you could also reuse the above notation for pushdown automata and check that the stack operations match the calls and returns, or write down the transition relation of a nested word automaton (which would be less redundant).

Edit: come to think of it, a notation for XML schemas, like the compact syntax of RelaxNG---which is an ASCII notation---, could easily be used for VPLs.  You'd just need to enforce some naming conventions for tags, e.g. an opening tag "&lt;ab&gt;" for a call symbol $a$ matching a closing tag "&lt;/ab&gt;" for a return symbol $b$.