Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD

[Glenn Linderman]

Damien Neil wrote:

> Having said that, I'm not fond of writing XML/HTML by hand.  I'd far
> rather write an author-friendly language and have that translated to
> XML.

Indeed, this is the key problem with human use of XML.  HTML was originally
simple enough to be human writable, its later, more powerful incarnations
start losing that (but you can always use a subset for simple things, and
XML never had human writable simplicity and never will.

--
Glenn
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