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Property lists

A property list is a flat, even length list of associations

The HTML/XML/CSS attributes are represented as property lists in LAML documents

Association list

 Property list

((peter . "windows")
 (lars . "mac")
 (paw . "linux")
 (kurt . "unix"))
 
(peter "windows"
 lars "mac"
 paw "linux"
 kurt "unix")
laml-doc-proplist.laml
A simple LAML document with emphasis on the attributes, represented as property lists.
In the LAML general library there are functions ( alist-to-propertylist and propertylist-to-alist ) that convert between association lists and property lists