On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Adam Turoff wrote:
> POD has three mighty significant advantages over XML:
> - it is easy to learn
> - it is to write
> - it is easy to ignore, if you're spelunking for Perl code
> Try and do that, when interferes with syntactically.
[snip]
> Moving towards a sys
On 10/3/00 12:01 PM, John Porter wrote:
> John Siracusa wrote:
>>> If you add (e.g.) support for tables, then pod is only translatable
>>> into languages which also support tables.
>>
>> What languages *don't* support tables?
>
> I knew that was a bad example of my point. Think of something com
John Porter (Today):
> 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 ca
On 10/3/00 10:59 AM, John Porter wrote:
> John Siracusa wrote:
>> POD is supposed to be the common format that can be transformed into other
>> representations. Instead, you have to add the different representations
>> yourself if you do anything remotely complex.
>
> No, POD is supposed to be si
>XML, on the other hand, uses & as the escaping mechanism, helping
>a reader sort-out deeply-nested escapings.
...
>POD has a good advantage in that it's design allows for it to
>embed well into code. If documentation is to be alongside
>code, a direction to consider is to have the Perl
>progra
On 10/2/00 1:56 PM, Bart Lateur wrote:
> 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".
Kind of like Perl, huh... ;)
(this is a feature, not a bug! :)
-Jo
Adam Turoff, at 03:22 -0400 on Sun, 1 Oct 2000, wrote:
> POD has three mighty significant advantages over XML:
> - it is easy to learn
True, but XML is also easy to learn, and is more in-line with what the
user will probably already know, as covered in the RFC.
> - it is to write
True, bu
