> the same question.  Also, interested developers should look at the .t 
> files, which contain hundreds of examples of Pod input and the XML output 
> that it should produce.

Cool! I'm so glad we finally have full use of regression tests for POD input and 
output.

> In writing Pod::Simple, I have thought mostly of the tasks of writing Pod 
> formatters.  I would like to hear from the authors of other sorts of Pod 
> processors (i.e., authors of Pod utilities)

Can it still accommodate the likes of Pod::Select and Pod::Usage?

Few people know it, but one of the reasons I undertook writing the initial Pod::Parser 
was because I felt that writing usage messages in my Perl code was redundant when my 
POD's already had the necessary text and formatting. I wanted the equivalent of 
Pod::Text, but only for certain sections of the PODs. (that, and two other different 
but related applications led me to write Pod::Parser).

I don't care so much if Pod::Select stays around (depends on who else needs it), but I 
definitely need Pod::Usage to still work, so that I can display short usage messages, 
and/or full-fledged manpages without any redundant usage text or redundant coding of 
stuff that the pod-parsing module already knows how to do.

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 "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
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