Learn English – The meaning of “shooting” in this sentence “Here’s the HTML we’re shooting to generate”

meaning

I don't know what "shooting" means in this sentence:

This is where the rubber meets the road. Let's start by building a page that just spits out our DB entries in a mildly pretty form. Here's the HTML we're shooting to generate:

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Could anybody enlighten me?

I met the sentence above in this tutorial and I think "intending", "aiming" and "would like to" are all good replacement in that context.

Best Answer

In the case the meaning is "Intending" I wouldn't use "shooting" in this case.

"Here's the HTML we're intending to generate."

would sound better.

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