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+.. -*- mode: rst; encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
+======
+Markup
+======
+
+---------------------------------------------------------
+Toolkit for stream-based generation of markup for the web
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+Markup is a Python library that provides an integrated set of components for
+parsing, generating, and processing HTML or XML content in a uniform manner.
+The major feature is a template language that is heavily inspired by Kid.
+
+* `Markup Streams`_
+* `Generating Markup Programmatically`_
+* `Markup XML Template Language`_
+* `Using XPath in Markup`_
+
+.. _`Markup Streams`: streams.html
+.. _`Generating Markup Programmatically`: builder.html
+.. _`Markup XML Template Language`: xml-templates.html
+.. _`Using XPath in Markup`: xpath.html