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Properties of the HTML mirrors

An HTML mirror is automatically derived from a DTD

  • Well-formed and valid documents

    • Guaranties generation of well-formed and valid HTML documents

  • Structural document representation

    • The mirror functions return abstract syntax trees which can be rendered as 'HTML text'

  • HTML layout

    • Supports optional pretty printing of the resulting HTML code

  • Convenient rendering of reserved HTML characters

    • '<' and '>' are rendered as the corresponding character entities