On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 05:04:53PM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 12:28, Brian Ingerson wrote: > > > The interesting thing to me is that all 3 syntaxes map over the same > > data model and thus are easily interchangable. > > It is, however, contrary to the spirit of POD for you or me to continue > much further down this road (see below). > > > Sam "mugwump" Vilain [...] > > is working on more formally defining the common model or "AST" that > > these dialects map to. > > My effort here was to try to PREVENT the proliferation (e.g. by Kwid and > POD butting heads and ending up in a stalemate). > > I'll continue only as far as is needed to propose this in full as an > example parser / converter, and then I'm going to stop.
If Brian is correct about the fundamental interchangeability of these dialects (and I have no reason to think he isn't), may I suggest that the simple answer is to have a program which can translate from one dialect to another--just like we distribute pod2man, pod2html, and pod2text, we would now distribute pod2kwid and ajskwid2pod. --Dks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
