Nigel Stewart wrote:
> 
>         Not at all, you seem to get the impression that this is
>         a new language - it's not.  It's simply POV Script in an
>         XML form.  There are two issues here - (1) the data model,
>         and (2) the way you encode it in ASCII.  I am really only
>         referring to (2).  The whole point of XML is to allow you
>         to manage the data model more effectively - but it doesn't
>         mean that you throw away your existing data model to use XML.
> 

POV script is very free-form, to be defined by XML, your language would
have to do away with that.
The freedom of the POV language is what makes it hard to parse, not the
fact that it uses
 statement{ val }
rather than
 <statement>
   <arg1> val </arg1>
 </statement>

PoD.

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