At 14:44 13/12/2000 -0800, brian moseley wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Robin Berjon wrote:
>> Other people seemed to be interested and said they'd
>> take care of doing something but like me I guess they
>> got flooded by work stuff. That's certainly what
>> happened to me :/
>
>that, and the fact that there is so much random content
>laying around the perl.apache.org site, in so many random
>formats. the amount of work it was going to take to retrofit
>all that junk pushed it to the bottom of my priority list.
I didn't mean to target you particularly there brian :) But indeed I bumped
into the same problem. Back then my todo list included writing Pod::SAX and
pod2sax (a pod translator that woudl generate SAX events) and an XML
publishing tool, which would have taken care of turning the site into
whatever layout might have been needed. Of course, in the meantime Matt
came up with AxKit and something that does more or less what I wanted to do
with Pod::SAX (neither take care of *all* the requirements that I set for
myself, but then I didn't release anything and it's probably much better to
have a good part of it than all of it :).
>sure would be nice if a lot of that content made its way to
>take23 in a format that can be more easily managed.
I think Matt requires some XML format (I'd guess DocBook) for take23.
However, translating from well-written pod to DocBook shouldn't be too hard
(especially as I think that Matt's Pod::XML takes care of a lot of that; a
patched Pod::DocBook will do too).
-- robin b.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention,
with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.
