[xep-support] MathML support

[Steve Lloyd]

Not to forget that this technique is just as applicable to XSLT 
applications.
See http://nwalsh.com/docs/articles/xml2002/lp/paper.html.
Or the even simpler technique of documenting stylesheets described in 
"The Design
of the Docbook XSL Stylesheets" 
 http://nwalsh.com/docs/articles/dbdesign/#litprog.
I guess we've absolutely no excuse for failing to document XSLT well ;-)

Steve


Werner Donné wrote:

> I couldn't agree more. Remember TeX was written in WEB, according to
> the "Literate Programming Paradigm", which was introduced by Donald 
> Knuth.
> A WEB source file contains the code as well as the documentation of the
> code. The idea was to write a programme as if it were a book. TeX is the
> main example of that paradigm.
>
> You would extract the code and the documentation from a WEB file with
> TANGLE and WEAVE. The nice thing is that the TeX code documentation is
> processed by TeX itself.
>
> Those ideas are twenty years old, but I find them still to be very 
> modern.
> See also http://www.literateprogramming.com/.
>
> Werner.
>
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
>> Jim Melton wrote:
>>
>>>> ...after all, you can
>>>> read the entire source code of TeX...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Now, there's a statement that needs a smiley if I ever saw one!
>>>
>> maybe. but can you think of any program with source code you could
>> read more easily? the source of TeX is small, by todays standards,
>> available in nicely printed books in the shop, is well documented and
>> cross-referenced, acknowledged to be bug free for all intents and 
>> purposes,
>> and written by one of the foremost authorities on computer programming.
>> *I* can't understand it, but I'm not a professional programmer.
>>
>> Sebastian
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