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Summary and conclusion

Subsumption of XML in a programming language supports the discipline of programmatic authoring

Program subsumption of XML is also useful for doing XML transformations and server side programming

Summary of advice:
- Most important, be aware of the programming paradigm and the abstractions involved
- Make a good fit between dominant data structures and the mirror of the XML elements
- Go for a non-generic, specific mirroring scheme
- Use keyword parameters for passing of attributes
- Consider the use of a name space mechanisms in the programming language to deal with name space issues in XML
- Integrate XML validation with the error checking model of the programming language
- Use an abstract tree-structured internal representation of XML fragments
- Pay great attention to the representation of the textual content in the program