Hi there,
Russ Allbery just mentioned to me that there wasn't, to his
knowledge, either an SGML DTD which would correspond to POD, nor an XML
schema. As someone who makes a living doing SGML work with perl, I'd be
interested in throwing together at the very least an SGML DTD that would
do the trick, some tools to go back and forth, and possibly an XML schema
for the same purpose. Russ commented he didn't think anyone was working on
such a thing, and that if I was interested, this was the address where the
folks I should contact about it could be found. I certainly wouldn't want
to duplicate anyone else's work or step on any toes, but if there'd be
interest in having such a thing around, I'd be interested in doing it, and
I don't think it'd be a terribly hairy project provided no one wants it
on a tight deadline. ;-)
What I would envision would be an SGML DTD which replicates POD, a
tool which uses POD::Parser to turn a POD document into SGML in that DTD,
and then a tool which'll generate HTML and/or XML, and the XML schema that
would accompany it. It's probably a few days of solid work, which means
since I'd be squeezing it into what free time I have it'd probably take me
a couple of months to put it all together.
Anyway, I'd be interested in working on such a project, and if
folks are already doing something like that I'd be glad to contribute
pieces here and there, such as (very simply) a DTD, which I could put
together in a matter of a few hours, if that's useful.
Let me know what you think!
Abby Franquemont "I might have amnesia -- but I'm not stupid!"
J. Random BOFH --Jackie Chan
