Ah, I was making a couple of assumptions: any DSL which generates markup must be more concise than the markup itself Otherwise, there will have been no poin

Ah, I was making a couple of assumptions: any DSL which generates markup must be more concise than the markup itself Otherwise, there will have been no point in creating the DSL. This assumption is probably fair. An example of this would be Seaside's HTML generation DSL. a more concise language will be better in the long run This assumption is flawed and doesn't take the designers' tools into account. A DSL would need its own tools before it became a valuable long-term investment.