From:	Larry Wall	Date:	Wed Aug 23 10:29:26 2000
Subject:	Re: RFC Suggest: Use of L<> to link RFCs; "CONFLICTS WITH", "REQUIRES", "STATUS" sections

John Porter writes:
: The only suggestions made so far about what the DTD would specify are:
: 
: 1. what sections (head1) would be required; and, by analogy, which would
:    be forbidden.  And possibly restrictions on section order.
: 2. how the L<> tag decorates the link.
: 
: The rules by which these policies would be specified could be arbitrarily
: complex; in particular, the L<> rule could specify alternative behavior
: when different output translators are in effect.

Most of the heuristics currently applied by the various pod2xxx filters
should be abstracted out into a policy file of some sort.  For instance,
only in the Perl documentation should $1 assume C<$1>.  (If even there.)

Larry