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Literal XML in Erlang with parse_transform/2

• June 26th, 2007
• Posted in Documentation . Erlang

One of the things I dislike about Erlang is that it severely impairs bragging opportunities. Yesterday I wrote a module that allows writing literal XML in the source and have it parsed into Erlang structures at compile time—sort of like E4X minus the manipulation goodies at runtime (at least for now). You write:

Doc = '<greeting>Hello!</greeting>',
io:format("~p~n", [Doc]).