For something like rpc where data is automatically encoded/decoded then there are definitely better alternatives if you don’t need string representation of the

For something like rpc where data is automatically encoded/decoded then there are definitely better alternatives if you don’t need string representation of the entire blob. Eg: protobuf has a schema and code generation for most languages that can then work with whatever editor you use to write code. I think editing xml is just as bad as editing anything else and is only made better by having some kind of plugin which understands xml + a specific schema.