I have become somewhat enamored of how text is parsed by POD for inline HTML elements, like B<a string> or I<a string>. I have gotten a regex to work for them, however I have not been able to figure out how to nest them such as I<B<a string>>. Here is what I have so far:

s/([A-Z]+)<(.+?)>/<\L$1\E>$2<\/\L$1\E>/g;

I have not gotten into adding ids, classes, styles, or other attributes yet.

Here is the list of tags I may use with this regex:

use strict;
use warnings;

while ( my $string = <DATA>) {
  $string =~ s/([A-Z]+)<(.+?)>/<\L$1\E>$2<\/\L$1\E>/g;
  print $string;
}

__DATA__
ABBR<a string>
ACRONYM<a string>
B<a string>
BIG<a string>
CITE<a string>
CODE<a string>
DFN<a string>
EM<a string>
I<a string>
KBD<a string>
SAMP<a string>
SMALL<a string>
SPAN<a string>
STRONG<a string>
SUB<a string>
SUP<a string>
TT<a string>
VAR<a string>
This is a B<string> which I want to I<parse> almost like EM<a POD>. CO
+DE<Let's see if I can do it.>
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Before you ask, yes, I looked for it (for about an hour) on CPAN to no avail.

Thanks in advance!

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