At 20:22 2002-10-12 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Why wouldn't the parser pass Y to the formatter if it said it understood
>it?

Yes.

>I don't understand the point in the pseudo-XML tag names.

It's so that if I (the person writing the pod) want to use Y for strikethru 
(or whatever), I can.  If I want to use Q for it, I can.  Etc.

That's how I handle the fact that the universe of possible useful 
extension-features is larger than A-Z (minus the letters already used) that 
are available for Pod formatting codes.


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Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/

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