Semantic representations

Here's a little article musing about HTML escaping: the tl;dr is that you need to know your application before really being able to do a perfect job. This being not so far from the problem with i18n and l10n of resources, it reminded me of an idea I had, which is to produce a generic library for the higher-level manipulation and preparation of program output.

It's kind of in a sketchy state, but - the generation of natural language being much easier than its parsing, it might be a good place to start with more flexible output design.