Monks,

I want to process a mostly-plain text document (one of the atxt documents semi-described in Automating a Static Website) in separate segments, doing slightly different things to each: one segment might be "Usenet-format" text, which I want to mark up with HTML::FromText; the next might be Perl code, which I want to markup as HTML with perltidy; the next might be more text, and so on. So I want to go through all of these segments, processing them appropriately, and end up with a large combined output (which I'll write to an html file or something).

One of my goals is to minimise the amount of explicit markup in the source file (which is why I'm not using XML). It strikes me that POD might be useful, if not directly, then as a base for the format I end up with.

So my questions:

  1. Are there any modules on CPAN that might be useful for this task? I've checked a couple of times, but if I was omniscient I'd be at the racetrack, not here. :-)
  2. Is POD suitable for this task? I don't really need a complex (heirarchical) markup language for this -- although I won't complain if I end up with one -- but POD is nice and clean, and has plenty of module support.

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In reply to Segmented text processing (with POD?) by FoxtrotUniform

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