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

[John Porter]

Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 02:44:56PM -0600, John Barnette wrote:
> > But why extend the syntax for such a niche application?
> > 
> >     * POD can be easily converted to XML.
> >     * POD can contain XML.
> >     * Advanced concepts that POD cannot contain that the XML junkies
> >       might want to be used can be embedded. (=for XML)
> 
> Now, if I could use POD to get the job done more lazily, but switch to XML

You can!  That's what Mr. Barnette was just saying.

=begin XML

<xmlcrap> unreadable verbosity...
<!lest anyone wonder how I feel about it...>
</xmlcrap>

=end XML

You would just need a pod converter to process it.
And you could probably whip that up yourself in no time.

-- 
John Porter

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