Re: DRY way to insert source code into an article?

Hello, Daniel.  On Sunday, April 13, 2008, at 7:23:49 AM, you
wrote:

> I'm starting to write articles about programming and I'd like to
> include source code snippets into my article.  My strategy was to get
> the source code examples working, then annotate sections of code which
> should be imported into the body of the article.  The goal here was to
> avoid copy-paste problems of putting incorrect or stale source code
> examples into the document.

> How do other pragmatists approach this problem?

My articles are prepared in XML for reasons that made sense at the
time. Like you propose, I get the code working, then paste it in.
This almost always works, but sometimes I mess up. It's the best I
know, though.

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
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