I have commented before on the face that Perl doesn't have "Power Tools" (read, idioms) that are well suited for handling XML. Turns out that Tim Bray agrees.
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/16/XML-Prog
You may want to look at the perl-xml thread called "Tim Bray says XML is too hard for programmers" on this topic, as well as at the xml-dev thread on the same topic, especially http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200303/msg00536.html.
Perl can have idioms for XML, they just need to be developed. I don't at all believe however that that needs to happen at the p6l level. We can already make very cool stuff using p5, and the grammar stuff in p6 ought to make the sort of while loop Tim Bray describes quite certainly doable as well.
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