Candle App Platform   

Candle's Design

• Candle is not just about open source. It is also Open Knowledge and Open Design. Read more about what is open design and why.
• Syntax Design
• Data Model Design
• Query Design
• App Design

Candle References

• Candle Overview

• Candle Markup Reference upd
• Candle Markup Examples upd
• Candle Data Model Reference 
• Candle Query Reference upd
• Candle Pattern Reference
• Candle System Routines Reference 
• Candle Style Reference
• Candle Runtime Reference 
• XML, XQuery Compatibility Reference 
• Candle Roadmap upd

	Why I Invented Candle (I)
	Why I Invented Candle (II)
	Towards the Grand Unification
	Who Needs XML?
	A Markup Notation Better Then Ever
	The Examples Speak for Themselves
	2 Misconcepts About Functional Programming
	Candle's Procedural Design
	What is Pure Computation

Candle Tutorials & Demos

• Tutorial 1 - Hello World Program
• Tutorial 2 - Basic Expressions
• Tutorial 3 - Path Expressions
• Tutorial 4 - Flow Control
• Tutorial 5 - Functions and Prologs
• Tutorial 6 - Template Tranformation
• Tutorial 7 - Action and Methods
• Tutorial 8 - Shell Scripting new
• Tutorial 9 - Server-Side Scripting new

• Online Query Editor: 
  (allows you to try out the sample code in the tutorials directly online)