On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:20:29AM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:16:23AM +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
> > I still think that with the correct
> > DTD writing the specs in XML would be doable.
>
> DocBook strikes me as being made for this sort of thing.
As someone who had the option of writing a book in DocBook or POD
I can tell you that it simply would not have happened in DocBook.
My co-author had used DocBook for a previous book and would rather
have his hands cut off than use it again. Having looked at it myself
I had to agree with him. Nice in theory. Good for an internal format
perhaps. But to author docs in it? No way.
I'd like to see pod improved in some small but significant ways.
I also remember saying a couple of years ago that I thought all the
pod-to-foo translators should be built on top of a small fast
pod-to-xml translator implemented in C/XS. XML would then be
doing what it's good at and very appropriate for.
But this isn't what we're here to design...
Tim.
