> Sorry not a good example I just pulled the example from the article ‘Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats’ hosted at xml.com. Presumably xml.com ha

> Sorry not a good example I just pulled the example from the article ‘Designing Extensible, Versionable XML Formats’ hosted at xml.com. Presumably xml.com has decent examples of XML? I an pretty sure that author is not a singular data type, since it is possible for a book to have multiple authors. > Sweet, succinct, elegant I think it’s still inelegant in comparison to the S-expression version. > The above can be parsed without bugginess or insecurity - those feel like opinions to me. A quick Googling for ‘xml parsing cve’ shows plenty of hits. Are you familiar with billion-laughs exploits? XML is well-known for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack