At 10:45 29/02/2000 -0800, Abby Franquemont wrote:
>I'm looking for such discussion, but not finding it -- if anyone has any
>pointers for where I'd find it, please let me know.
At
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-08/thrd12.html#0
1121 there's a thread that doesn't keep a constant subject line and wanders
onto many topics but contains some reference to pod and xml. I think it
starts with "No Subject, Larry Wall".
There's also a thread starting with message
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2000-02/msg00088.html
about XPOD.
>The other question, perhaps obvious, that I figured I should answer is, if
>there's already a module to turn POD into SGML in the DocBook DTD, why
>write a DTD just for POD, and tools to turn it into that? The quickest
>glib answer off the tip of my tongue is "Because I don't really like the
>DocBook DTD all that much," and also because I think this would be a very
>simple, straightforward DTD, which could among other things be easily
>given to anyone who develops documentation in SGML, work with SGML-aware
>tools, and generate SGML files which readily map to POD.
Well I guess I'm not the only one who would rather avoid having to work
with DocBook...
.Robin
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