The HTML functions also permit me to use Emacs to find the nestingness of each tag, and there are a lot of high-level functions that aren't 1-to-1 with HTML that shortcut many things. When's the last time you had to do an option-list by hand? It's so much easier with the shortcut! And using the HTML functions, I get sticky fields and HTML-escaping of defaults for free!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker