[epo-core] List of supported projects

Matt S Trout mst at shadowcat.co.uk
Mon Sep 15 18:42:58 BST 2008


On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:22:06AM -0700, J. Shirley wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Jesse Vincent <jesse at fsck.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I would propose development of a pod-book system.  I hacked up a proof
> >> of concept that simply parsed a YAML file to establish relations
> >> between pod, and generate out a tree, it was incredibly ugly and not
> >> quite finished but easy enough to work on.  Uses TT to render from
> >> Pod::POM, pretty basic.
> >
> > It's called PseudoPod and was developed by O'Reilly.
> > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-PseudoPod/ is, as far as I know, pretty
> > recent.
> >
> 
> Sorry, I think there's been some misunderstanding (but it happens a
> lot, I think I don't explain it well, or perhaps focus on the wrong
> points first).
> 
> To try again, my work is not around formatting instead around cohesive
> structure.  The PseudoPod work is more targeting my comment about Pod
> itself being a good reference format by expanding the offerings to
> have singular pages have more substance beyond reference lists.  It
> doesn't address the notion that Pod documents are single documents and
> there is no way to cohesively bind multiple pod documents together
> outside of pod documents.
> 
> The idea that it is Pod could be substitutes for any other format,
> really.  Pod::POM or PseudoPod are irrelevant, I just want something
> that injects nodes in the rendering bit that creates a work flow
> through the documents.  As far as I know, even with PseudoPod, the
> only way to do that is to put the data directly in the Pod itself.  I
> read PseudoPod's pod again, and didn't see any other top level
> structural bits that do what I'm aiming for.

Could we make this work easily by going via docbook?

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