> There is a solution: xml, xsl-fo. You're right about that, but sadly years of "xml-abuse" in the early naughts has given xml a bad reputation. So much so tha

> There is a solution: xml, xsl-fo. You're right about that, but sadly years of "xml-abuse" in the early naughts has given xml a bad reputation. So much so that other, inferior, markups were created like json and yaml. We ain't ever going back. Meanwhile, pdf just worked-- until you the first time you crack it open and see what's inside the pdf file. I'll never forget the horror after I committed to a time-critical project where I claimed... "Oh, I'll just extract data from the PDF, how bad could it possibly be!"