I have been learning Emacs for a few months now, and am loving it (mostly), but I'm going to skip the Emacs issue and focus on his problem with xml. "Doing thi

I have been learning Emacs for a few months now, and am loving it (mostly), but I'm going to skip the Emacs issue and focus on his problem with xml. "Doing this effectively requires your data to be tree-structured." I have actually been replacing XML with YAML in lots of places. I find the structure much less verbose, and easier to understand, and has features that JSON lacks, and I almost never have problems with delimiter collision. If you haven't yet, I really suggest checking out YAML, but that's just my two cents.