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

[Bart Lateur]

On 04 Oct 2000 18:43:43 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:

>POD is not suitable for producing books. It can be used, however, to
>provide the information that a (human) typesetter can turn into a
>printed book. 

If a typesetter knows enough with just the POD, it is possible to
completely typeset the entire book automatically.

I'm not saying that the standard tools provided with Perl, are enough.

-- 
        Bart.