On 2 Oct 2000, at 10:35, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> From: John Porter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > It would be very detrimental to perl's performance to have to do an
> > XML parse of every input source file.
>
> if the parser can skip between:
>
> =pod
>
> =cut
>
> it can certainly be made to skip between:
>
> <pod>
> </pod>
Skipping between
=pod
and
=cut
is a lot easier than between
<pod>and</pod>
when you are reading a line at a time; you can simply strcmp them
and not have to worry about what happens if there's other stuff
before and after the tags.
Cheers,
Philip
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