Re: XML/HTML-specific ?< and ?> operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

   > What would be useful, would be to leave REs the hell alone; they're 
   > great as-is, and are only getting hairier and hairier.

Amen!
   
   > What would be useful, would be to create a new non-regular
   > pattern-matching/parsing "language" within Perl, that combines
   > the best of Perl REs, lex, SNOBOL, Icon, state machines, and what
   > have you.

Have you seen Parse::RecDescent? I think it -- and other parsing
modules such as Parse::Yapp and Parse::YALALR -- represents the
direction we should be heading.

Damian