Just as an anecdote: about two years ago I had a discussion about marshalling data structures into XML and indeed, two people managed to come up with three diff

Just as an anecdote: about two years ago I had a discussion about marshalling data structures into XML and indeed, two people managed to come up with three different schemes [0]. Of course that spells doom for something that's supposed to be used as a data-exchange format. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24614404#24626486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24614404#24626486