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Literate Programming in XMLPage 1Literate Programming in XMLNorman WalshAbstractLiterate programming is a programming and documentation methodology. Its central tenet isthat documentation is more important than source code and should be the focus of a programmer'sactivity.Literate programming facilitates this approach by combining code and documentation into asingle unified source document. One interesting aspect of this combined form is that it is neithersource code nor documentation. Instead a literate programming system provides tools that allowa user to extract the source code or documentation automatically but neither of these extractedforms is ever modified.Using a literate programming system offers some interesting benefits for many programmingstyles. Because the combined format is machine processed to produce the source code the authoris no longer required to maintain or write the code in the linear fashion that the computerultimately expects. This is clearly advantageous for topdown and bottomup design strategies.It may also have benefits for more modern programming methodologies such as Extreme Programming.Typical literate programming systems are quite complex. They are built on top of someunderlying documentation system (such as TeX) and described in terms of the macros and otherdocumentation markup required to describe an xweb document.However it quickly becomes apparent that XML can greatly simplify this situation. By stipulatingthat the documentation format include a few (namespaced) elements it is possible to implementliterate programming in XML on top of any format that the author chooses: DocBook TEIXHTML you name it.In the past few years the number of XML vocabularies has exploded. Where there used to bejust a few there are now hundreds. In addition many of these new vocabularies have all sortsof sophisticated processing expectations: XSLT W3C XML Schema RELAX NG SchematronSAML SVG and MathML just to name a small handful.Luckily Litera ...

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