RE: Perl already allows XML for documentation (was Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD)

[Garrett Goebel]

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>