Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

[Tad McClellan]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 07:56:45PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:51:28 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:
> 
> >> XML never had human writable simplicity and never will.
> >
> >XML is intrinsically no more or less difficult to write than HTML.
> 
> The problem with XML is that it is so unforgiving; I think somebody
> already mentioned that. Improperly nested tags, or one character it
                          ^^^^^^^^
> doesn't recognize... and the parser says "nyet".
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                              


I read that as "the machine will tell me when I messed up".

I'd rather have a machine tell me than have to figure it
out myself. I think I claim some of the Good Laziness there  :-)


If we want data we can process, we first need data we can parse.

We would have that with XML, we could have that with POD. Just
publish the grammar for POD documents.


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