XML Elves

We easily forget, and I have been guilty of this many times, that technology serves business and not the other way around. YAML? Are you kidding me? Computers are fast and disk storage is cheap so I really am not interested in such minor efficiencies. Using indentation to distinguish hierarchy in data? That is very risky! This is not a programming language like Python that is guaranteed to be run through a compiler. In the data you must have explicit declaration of syntax NOT implicit. Again, if you are thinking like a developer your brain says "hey, I can save those angle brackets and not have to type them" or "I can save that closing tag so I don't 'waste' my precious time." Please ... those angle brackets and that closing tag make the data demarcations explicit. That is more important than a developer saving five keystrokes per line.

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