I.4 An Overview of Examples

We have encountered exciting software and system architectures during our professional lives. Several of those would have made instructive, interesting, and highly relevant examples – too bad they were declared confidential by their respective owners. Our nondisclosure agreements stated that we're not allowed to even mention clients' names without violating those contracts.

Therefore, it has been quite difficult to find practical examples that we can freely write and talk about.

Now, let's get an overview of the examples that are waiting in the rest of this book.

HTML Sanity Checking

The HTML Sanity Checker is a tiny open source system for checking HTML files for semantic errors such as broken cross-references, missing images, unused images, and similar stuff.

Dr. Gernot wrote the initial version of this system himself when working on a rather large (100+ pages) documentation based upon the AsciiDoctor (https://asciidoctor.org) markup language...