Programmatic authoring

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Programmatic authoring

Using programmatic authoring the document source is a program written in a programming language. By executing the program, the document source program is transformed to another format, typically HTML.

Expected advantages of programmatic authoring
- We can use all the 'programming tricks' in the web authoring area
  - Authoring of complex materials parallels creation of non-trivial programs
- Programmatic authoring is probably not feasible in many main stream languages
  - Java, C++, C, Pascal, Perl, ...

Using programmatic authoring the power of a programming language is available everywhere in the document, and at any time in the authoring process