This struck me as clueless part of the article. Perl coding was a significant portion of my career, and much of that involved web services, involving XML. I've

This struck me as clueless part of the article. Perl coding was a significant portion of my career, and much of that involved web services, involving XML. I've never come across code that attempted to parse XML with regexes in Perl. It was always done with easy-to-import-and-call XML DOM or SAX parsers.