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On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 06:34:31PM -0500, tadmc@metronet.com wrote: > > I suggest we do something like: > > Define a "semi structured text" format (or use POD). Use POD. Use POD. Use POD! For goodness sake, we've enough to do without defining new text formats! > RFC Author writes in semi-structured text (i.e. easy and non-scary). > > Author runs a (provided) tool (30 lines of Perl) that converts > semi-structured to XML. > > Author runs a (provided) tool that converts the XML back to > plain text, to see if it still looks right. > > The resultant XML is what is submitted (i.e. becomes "official"). > > Tools for translating the XML to plain text, POD, HTML, > SQL insert stmts, etc can then have their way with it. All not a high priority and can be done against the repository of RFCs once we have one. > P.S. I hereby volunteer to help with any Markup Language related > aspects of Perl 6. Send me email if you can use markup help. Thanks. Tim.Thread Previous | Thread Next