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What does the % operator formally do? All I could find in the documentation was :

> Earl Grey's % operator can be used to easily build HTML, DOM, virtual DOM, and other things:



There are examples below that statement for common usage, but if you want a deeper understanding:

    tag.xyz %
       property = value
       child1
       child2
Will produce the data structure:

    {tags = {"tag", ".xyz"}
     props = {property = value}
     children = {child1, child2}}
as an instance of the ENode class. Then, transformer functions can process the data structure to generate HTML or other things, e.g.

    require: /html
    html(thing)
    ==> <tag class="xyz" property="value">child1child2</tag>




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