Summarizing the XHTML mirrors

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Summarizing the XHTML mirrors

An XHTML mirror maps each HTML element to a named function in Scheme

An XHTML mirror is automatically derived from an XML DTD

Properties:
- Each mirror function accepts parameters in a flexible way
- Generates well-formed and valid HTML documents
- Prevents accidental emission of '<' and '>' as part of the textual contents
- The mirror functions return abstract syntax trees which, for instance, can be rendered as 'HTML text'
- Supports optional pretty printing of the resulting HTML code
- Supports checking of both relative and absolute links

All this is generalized to arbitrary XML languages in LAML