On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> I've been working like a madman for the past few days, coming up with
> a pod2xml and matching xml2pod. (Why? Because it's not there.)
>
> The idea of these xml2pod/pod2xml (both wrapped up in a not-yet-released
> Pod::PXML) is to freely go between a conventional POD document and an XML
> representation of it -- write in whichever you want, convert to whichever
> you need.
> I came up with a DTD for the XML doctype I had in mind, and then wrote
> the pod2xml and xml2pod to work for that doctype.
>
> (This whole endeavor, BTW, is unrelated to Matt Sergeant's Pod::XML
> module.)
Umm, why? As the module authoring instructions on cpan say, why not help
with the existing module?
Note that one thing POD::XML does differently is that it creates a
hierarchical structure from POD based on head elements. This is opposed to
the general appearance of POD (and your PXML) that is close to HTML in
structure (i.e. basically flat). Not sure which people prefer, but I'm
sure you can guess which I prefer :-)
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