On 08-10-2013, at 2:53 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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> XML is way too heavy-weight.  I want something that is easily manually edited.  But it's hardly scary, merely ludicrously verbose (and then there's the escape conventions; you thought !! was a pain, but &quot;no way&quot; :) 

Surely that should be
&ampersand;quot&semicol;

oh, wait, that would be 
&ampersand&semicol;quo…. no wait, stack overflow

I admit to having successfully ignored xml stuff, but is it plausible to use only a small part of the full monty? Does it *have* to be heavyweight, or could we write out source code in an xml correct manner that only uses the parts required, then only handle those parts as part of reading the source?

tim
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