> Plain text protocols suck. They give you the illusion of readability... They don't, and the readability is a feature. I'm not sure how you conflate XML and

> Plain text protocols suck. They give you the illusion of readability... They don't, and the readability is a feature. I'm not sure how you conflate XML and JSON as synonymous to "protocol" and also requiring tools to filter, but than imply that a "good tag/length/value" format would somehow be superior to the former.