Re: Templating Feature sets

["Erich L. Markert" <em...@pace.edu>]

Stas Bekman wrote:
> I believe XML is a way too heavy for docs writing. Why one will want to
> get a messy source code, when you can get away with a minimalistic POD.
> Just look at the Guide's source code and look at the generated PDF --
> isn't it great? I love POD. And if you want more than POD provides, it
> takes secs to add the new functionality.
> 

XML is probably a tad overboard but how about XHTML or at least looking
for a POD => XHTML for the future?
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Re: Templating Feature sets

[Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org>]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Erich L. Markert wrote:

> Stas Bekman wrote:
> > I believe XML is a way too heavy for docs writing. Why one will want to
> > get a messy source code, when you can get away with a minimalistic POD.
> > Just look at the Guide's source code and look at the generated PDF --
> > isn't it great? I love POD. And if you want more than POD provides, it
> > takes secs to add the new functionality.
> > 
> 
> XML is probably a tad overboard but how about XHTML or at least looking
> for a POD => XHTML for the future?

The problem is that POD is actually more semantically rich than HTML (or
XHTML). And you don't want to lose that semantic information (POD is
really nice for grepping just the code segments, for example).

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