As someone who used to work a lot with XML, I was annoyed to bits by XML parsers forcing me to always use tags that a parser could trivially infer from the targ

As someone who used to work a lot with XML, I was annoyed to bits by XML parsers forcing me to always use tags that a parser could trivially infer from the target document model. Especially since XML was (and still is) for data transmission, and absolutely not for data storage, it always struck me as an incredibly wasteful approach to transmission data packing.