> 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. ;-)
That's definitely something that would be nice to have. Iirc there was a
plan that was discussed on p5p a few months ago that was to have a pod2xml
translator that would be the one main podlator, and that all other formats
translated from pod could use that and some XSLT to generate the output.
There were several threads on the subject, including some on something
called XPOD though I don't recall what it was exactely. It is likely that
not all of those suggestions were posted to pod-people so you might want to
search the p5p archives for messages relating to pod. You'll probably find
some good ideas lying around there (in middle of some amount of flames).
Pod's pretty straightforward, as you seem to be experienced with SGML it
shouldn't take too long to produce something good. The main problem I can
see coming is to be sure what pod exactely is (does =head3 exist and that
kind of detail). An XML Schema seems like a good idea eventually, though it
may be worth waiting at least a few weeks as there seems to be new stuff
coming up soon on that front (such as the mythical subset that would make
it understandable by creatures of earth).
Glad that someone's willing to work on this :)
.Robin
James Joyce -- an essentially private man who wished his total indifference
to public notice to be universally recognized. -- Tom Stoppard
