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XML Processing in LAML
Programmatic Authoring

By writing documents directly in a programming language you have excellent possibilities to fight complexity at any location in the document, and at any time in the development process

  • Complexity fighting means

    • Introduction of functional abstractions

    • Avoiding (repetitive) manual work by programmed solutions

  • Can documents in natural languages really be written in a programming language?

    • Textual contributions in quoted strings

    • Implicit concatenation, implicit list flattening, adequate white space handling

    • Good editor support for common editing tasks