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> I should say - I don't hate the XML standard. In itself it isn't a bad > idea, since it did remove a few complexities from SGML that made it > harder to parse reliably.[1] It removed very little that was actually hard to parse by computer, and a lot of stuff that made it easier to parse by eye. By comparison with things that are genuinely easy to parse, like DIF, it's a nightmare. If they wanted to make it easy to parse they would have left things like <tag/text/ in and taken out the complex attribute quoting rules.There's stuff above here
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