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  <Title>XML and Multilingual Document Authoring: Convergent Trends</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Typical al)proaches to XML authoring view a XML docurnent as a mixture of structure (the tags) and surlhce (texl between the tags). We advoeale a radical approach where the surface disappears from lhe XML documenl altogether to be handled exclusively by rendering mechanisms. This move is based on the view that the author's choices when authoring XML docutnciHs are best seen as language-i~eutral semantic decisions, that lhe SlftlClure can then be viewed as inlerlingual content, and that the textual oulpul should be derived from this co)lien\[ by language-sl~ecific realization mechanisms, lhus assimilating XML aufllol'ing lo Mullilingual Document Amhof ing. However, slandard XMI, tools have imporlant lhnitations when used for such a ptu'pose: (1) they are weak at propagating semanlic dependencies belween dil'ferenl parts of the st,'ucture, and, (2) current XMI. rendering tools are ill-suited for handling the grammatical combination of lextual units. We present two relalcd proposals for overcoming these limitalions: one (GI:) origitmting in the Iradilion of malhemalical proof edilors and conslructivc type lhcery, the other (IG), a specialixation of l)elinite Clause (_\]ranllllars strongly inspired by (iF.</Paragraph>
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