I think there could be, but it's ugly. The XStream library wasn't horrid, but it basically provides a way to serialize/deserialize from the java object defs, wh

I think there could be, but it's ugly. The XStream library wasn't horrid, but it basically provides a way to serialize/deserialize from the java object defs, which is still a schema of sorts. You know <key name="blah">key value</key>. It just highlights the extra verbiage, and pushes people towards "just use json/yaml".