Learning by reading code

[WILLIAMS Dominic]

Hello,

I am trying to learn Erlang, and like to read code written by experienced Erlangers.
I came across the following things (in xmerl) for which I could find no explanation in the documentation:

-compile(export_all).

What does this mean? Does it automatically export all functions contained in the file?

'#text'(Text) ->
    export_text(Text).

There are lots of functions in xmerl with these funny names. Does this have any special significance?

Cheers,

Dominic.