[Doc-SIG] Documentation tool

[Guido van Rossum]

> The problem I see cropping up is people thinking that <B>words</B>
> implies full HTML (people never read the instructions). It's a real
> slippery slope that I wanted to avoid. If you're only going to have
> two or three tag out of the HTML then it shouldn't matter that they
> are same or not since you are not adopting the bulk of the markup.
> Next people will want <UL> <LI> support, and then ... yada yada.

> Oh and I can see someone arguing that <STRONG> should be supported
> instead/as well as <B> because it's the proper abstract tag. Whoops,
> slipped on that ice again!

What happened to JavaDoc?  Did this happen?  How much of HTML does it
support?  Is there pressure to support more?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)