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Beyond OmniMark
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The field of programming languages is in continual flux: there are new languages coming along every few years. In the field of text and markup processing languages, things have settled down rather, with XSLT dominating and a few other languages like OmniMark filling in the gaps, but it is no more exempt from change than any other application area. Whether change is always improvement is not a certainty, but we must always be striving for improvement, so one hopes that there is such a thing that applies to our text and markup language field.
This paper starts with an overview of some existing text and markup processing languages, and concludes with an outline and examples of a new programming language, that I hope will make text and markup processing easier than is now the case, or at least provide thoughts as to which directions things can go.
Title: Beyond OmniMark
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The field of programming languages is in continual flux: there are new languages coming along every few years.
In the field of text and markup processing languages, things have settled down rather, with XSLT dominating and a few other languages like OmniMark filling in the gaps, but it is no more exempt from change than any other application area.
Whether change is always improvement is not a certainty, but we must always be striving for improvement, so one hopes that there is such a thing that applies to our text and markup language field.
This paper starts with an overview of some existing text and markup processing languages, and concludes with an outline and examples of a new programming language, that I hope will make text and markup processing easier than is now the case, or at least provide thoughts as to which directions things can go.