Perhaps not yet, but continued progress with XML/XSL aware editors might
raise the question at some point. As a near example, writing out anchors in
html is something I've always considered a pain, but it is a highlight and a
button click in EditPlus. Can't be a lot longer before that functionality is
around for pod (more to the point, given an XSL, for any similar language.)

--hsm

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean M. Burke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 5:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: XML as Pod?


This may sound a bit strange from the person who wrote pod2pxml as well as
pxml2pod, but:

Does anyone out there (on pod-people or elsewhere) really want to write
podly documentation in XML syntax?  I.e., not someone who wants Pod syntax
to be /replaced/ with XML, but someone who wants to write "<c>foo()</c>"
instead of "C<foo()>".

I was pondering making my grand pod2sax/pod2xml parser accept either
traditional pod syntax or an XML notational variant of it -- but the latter
could clearly /require/ a real XML parser module installed; and that idea
causes some angst, anxiety, and anguish among pod-people, including me.  So
I'm strongly leaning toward thinking that that idea really is really worth
the bother.

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Sean M. Burke    [EMAIL PROTECTED]    http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/

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