> The solution is to have a storage format optimized for storage Plaintext is for interchange not storage. You can optimise for storage by putting .gz on the e

> The solution is to have a storage format optimized for storage Plaintext is for interchange not storage. You can optimise for storage by putting .gz on the end of it. > writing and editing to be done through tools that render you a representation best suited for what you need at the moment. XML? XSLT? This has been tried and it’s easily done if you want nobody to like you. The crux of the issue is interchange. Neither of the things you have so vociferously decried. As usual, somewhere in the middle. The lowest common denominator is plain text and that’s what works best en masse for all the participants and tooling.