> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.laws.africa/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.laws.africa/markup-guide/intro.md).

# Introduction

The Laws.Africa platform uses a parser: a machine translator that turns the plaintext in the Edit window into rich XML (see the screenshots below).

This parser relies heavily on **indentation** to group content and thus capture the structure of a document.

Keywords introduce a group, and everything that falls into that group is indented below the keyword.

See the 'Marking up' subsections for details, and the [Keyword reference](/markup-guide/keyword-reference.md) for a summary.

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