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Programmatic WWW authoring Where is Denmark? Where is Aalborg? * Programmatic Authoring Premises Programmatic authoring An example of programmatic authoring * The HTML Mirrors Mirroring of HTML (1) Mirroring of HTML (2) Mirroring of HTML (3) Mirroring of HTML (4) Properties of the HTML mirrors * Document styles Document styles XML in LAML LENO: An XML-in-LAML example language * Reflections and conclusions Reflections Conclusions

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