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Subject: Re: POD -> DocBook?
/ Tom_Roche@ncsu.edu was heard to say: | However, I've been interested in DocBook (esp as implemented in XML), | and some groups affiliated with this project are doing much more with | it. This has caused me to wonder if one could do something like this: | | > <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" [ | > <!ENTITY module1 SYSTEM "module1.pm"> | > <!ENTITY module2 SYSTEM "module2.pm"> | > <!ENTITY code3 SYSTEM "code3.pl"> | > <!ENTITY appa SYSTEM "appa.sgm"> | > <!ENTITY appb SYSTEM "appb.sgm"> | > ]> | | > <book><title>Our Software</title> | > &module1; | > &module2; | > &code3; | > &appa; | > &appb; | > </book> Not a chance. An SGML or XML document must consist entirely of valid SGML or XML. | In other words, I'd like to have a DocBook formatter to which I could | just pass PODed Perl. It doesn't seem like brain surgery, but then | I've very little hands-on experience with DocBook. More likely what you'd need is a program, er, perl script :-), that extracts the POD and produces XML. The pod2html script, or whatever it's called, should be a good starting point. | Can this be done? Has anyone done anything like this? Is there a | better way? Your comments and suggestions are appreciated; DTDs and | stylesheets would be thrilling :-) Uh, a better way, IMHO, would be to write the documentation in DocBook and downtranslate to POD if necessary. But as I observed at the Open Source Documentation Summit, DocBook is my hammer... :-) Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | [The internet is] the largest http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | equivalence class in the reflexive Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | transitive symmetric closure of | the relationship 'can be reached | by an IP packet from.'--Seth | Breidbart
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