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

[Bart Lateur]

On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:51:28 -0700, Damien Neil wrote:

>> XML never had human writable simplicity and never will.
>
>XML is intrinsically no more or less difficult to write than HTML.

The problem with XML is that it is so unforgiving; I think somebody
already mentioned that. Improperly nested tags, or one character it
doesn't recognize... and the parser says "nyet".

-- 
        Bart.