# 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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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.laws.africa/markup-guide/intro.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.