Literate Programming in XML
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1 (19) Literate Programming in XML Combining source code and documentation Author:Peter PierrouAddress:Excosoft AB, Peter.Pierrou@excosoft.se http://www.excosoft.se Peter Pierrou is the Project Manager for the Documentor project at Excosoft. Abstract This paper introduces a programming environment which is based on hierarchical structure, links, and literate programming. This programming environment aims to increase productivity in large software construction projects. Literate programming in XML is good for productivity as it makes source code readable, provides an overview, and helps keep documentation consistent with the source code. Background New technologies and standards have recently emerged that allow the creation of an innovative programming environment. A programming environment where the primary focus is not on producing code in a particular programming language, but on the structure and logic of the program. Accordingly I advance a new approach to program development, combining the link technology popularized by HTML and the hierarchical structure of XML with the most important aspects of Donald E. Knuths literate programming. In this paper I describe a literate programming system that enables the programmer to work directly with documentation and pseudo code. The system consists of an XML editor with a programming environment that supports literate programming. The key feature of the system is that the program is readable on the screen. It differs, therefore, from those literate programming systems that focus on transforming something that is totally unreadable on the screen into a readable printed format. Such an approach does not help the programmer and it is a criticism of current literate programming systems that they only confer long-term advantages and are not applicable to projects that operate in short time frames [CL]. A literate programming system should help the programmer to program. 2 (19) The system presented here has ...
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