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

[John Porter]

We must not forget that pod has one other requirement, which pure
embedded XML would violate: namely, perl (that's the perl interpreter)
must be able to detect and skip over pod sections very quickly.
It would be very detrimental to perl's performance to have to do an
XML parse of every input source file.

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John Porter