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There were efforts to make XML 1. more ergonomic and 2. more performant, and while (2) was largely successful, (1) never got there, unfortunately - but seem https://github.com/yaml/sml-dev-archive https://github.com/yaml/sml-dev-archive for some history of just one of the discussions (sml-dev mailing list).