Although many Perl modules dealing with various aspects of XML (among which a good number offer various ways of transforming XML documents), other languages seem to be favored by XML developers for example, Java, C/C++, and maybe even Python. Sun, IBM, and Microsoft all push Java or C++ implementations. Perl, the choice of many for programming on the Web, lags behind Java and C++ in the XML popularity contest. The author shares his opinions on what's wrong, and what could be done about it.