XML is not insane, actually it’s an open standard for writing legal documents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma_Ntoso https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma

XML is not insane, actually it’s an open standard for writing legal documents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma_Ntoso https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akoma_Ntoso Legal text is not prose, it does have structure and metadata attached to it.