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> If a markup-generating DSL was simple enough for designers to pick up quickly, it would make good business sense to push them through the transition.

Designers being able to do it isn't the problem, justifying why designers should need to is the problem.

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Ah, I was making a couple of assumptions:

  any DSL which generates markup must be more concise than the markup itself

Otherwise, there will have been no point in creating the DSL. This assumption is probably fair. An example of this would be Seaside's HTML generation DSL.

  a more concise language will be better in the long run

This assumption is flawed and doesn't take the designers' tools into account. A DSL would need its own tools before it became a valuable long-term investment.

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