>> You only need one parser, and there are automated tools to check for 
>> correct structuring.
> 
> Still... you'd think that if that were the goal, they could design it so 
> that it DOESN'T exponentially increase your file size.

Oh come now, it only induces a *linear* size increase. And any 
half-decent compression algorithm can elide that. ;-)

In simple terms, redundancy = it's easier to detect when it's broken.

XML does however have a small zoo of other problems. You know, I lot of 
people think that "XML" just means "I make up some tag names" and that's 
all there is to it. It's actually way more complicated than most people 
realise. I *still* can't get it to work right... :-S

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