Re: Proposal for groups

[Alan Burlison]

Adam Turoff wrote:

> <xml-evangelist>
> Say What?
> </xml-evangelist>

Say XML - ex em ell :-)

> We need a better POD, not a cumbersome machine-to-machine interchange
> format for writing docs.

The main problem with POD is that we have to write the tools to do
anything with it.  Witness the endless hacking/cursing/hacking/cursing
cycle on the existing POD tools.  Do we really want to continue? 
Personally I think POD sucks bigtime, although I'm sure hordes of people
will now spring up to defend it.  I still think that with the correct
DTD writing the specs in XML would be doable.

Alan Burlison