On Nov 29, 2007 10:07 AM, James Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once again, the point is that I would like to manage and process XML > using native types, structures and xml aware operators, from within > perl. If I inherit XPATH, then I get 90% of everything I need.
But what do you mean "native"? I think you're misunderstanding the whole "core" argument. Assume that you install Perl 6, and it comes with everything you need to do XML processing. You have to add a 'use' statement at the top, but the module so used is preinstalled. Having used it, operators work on XML objects: you can add a child node with +, index a document tree with XPath expressions, etc. What more do you need? The module could even, I suppose, insert a filter into the compiler so that your proposed literal syntax would work, but I don't really see the advantage of that over this: my $doc = Document.new(<<END); <some><content>here</content></some> END You mentioned regexes several times, but there's a difference. Regular expressions are often quite short, to the point where the syntax around creating them can overwhelm them (as anyone who's tried to use them in Java or pre-regex-literal Javascript can attest). XML documents? Not so much. I don't see any advantage to adding support for embedded XML to the core parser, which is complex enough as it is. XML + POD, anyone?
