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POD::Abstract provides a means to load a POD (or POD compatible)
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document without direct reference to it's syntax, and perform
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manipulations on the abstract syntax tree.
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This can be used to support additional features for POD, to format
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output, to compile into alternative formats, etc.
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While Pod looks like a simple format, the specification calls for
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a number of special cases to be handled, and that makes any software
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that works on Pod as text more complex than it needs to be. In
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addition to this, Pod does not lend itself to a natural structured
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model. This makes it difficult to manipulate without damaging the
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validity of the document.
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Pod::Abstract solves these problems by loading the document into a
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structured tree, and providing consistent traversal, searching,
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manpulation and re-serialisation. Pod related utilities are easy
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to write using Pod::Abstract.
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