FuseDocs is a program definition language created by Hal Helms in the late 1990s. In its original form, FuseDocs used a proprietary

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to define the responsibilities, properties, and I/O of code module in the

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programming language. In its second form (2.0), FuseDocs uses an

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. In essence, FuseDocs forms a sort of work order, telling the

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everything needed to write the module, and nothing more. A Fusebox architect is responsible for creating the FuseDocs for an application. A DTD for FuseDocs is available at fusebox.org. Although FuseDocs was so named because of its creation within the Fusebox community, it is also used by developers who do not employ Fusebox as an

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