> The creators of XML were aware that it was verbose; they mention in their design goals that this was the least priority. Which seems pretty wasteful. > Chil

> The creators of XML were aware that it was verbose; they mention in their design goals that this was the least priority. Which seems pretty wasteful. > Child and attribute "dichotomy" is not a mistake. It's not for a markup format — as I mentioned, it can make sense there — but, as you mentioned, it doesn't make sense in a config or data file format.