Generating POD from other documentation formats

wazoox has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

It's all in the title I guess; I gave a try to Robodoc and it's really extremely powerful and practical. I'd however like to add POD to the modules and scripts I'm writing, so they'd self documented. There are tons of pod-to-something converters, but what about a something-to-pod?
for instance Docbook2pod would be insanely great...

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Re: Generating POD from other documentation formats by holli (Abbot) on Jun 28, 2005 at 08:31 UTC
there seems no existing tool yet, but maybe you can chain docbook2man and man2pod?	[reply]
Re^2: Generating POD from other documentation formats by wazoox (Prior) on Jun 28, 2005 at 09:02 UTC
I could actually do this way : Robodoc->man->pod. I'll give it a try but it may not be elegant and robust enough to be entirely satisfying :) However "robodoc2pod" would be quite easy and straightforward to write I guess, but docbook is so pervasive that it probably would be a better and more useful choice for a "whatever2pod" tool. What's your opinion? If I have to write a tool, which will be the most useful?	[reply]
Re: Generating POD from other documentation formats by wazoox (Prior) on Mar 13, 2006 at 16:55 UTC
Time has passed, and it finally made its way out :ROBODoc to Pod translator!	[reply]