Re: [xml-dev] Ted Nelson's "XML is Evil"

Hunsberger, Peter wrote:
> Not to say it's a bad archive format, just to say that I don't
> see why it stands the test of long term usability necessarily better
> than any other format.  XML parsers may be just a curious artifact of
> the past in 20 years...

But I don't need a parser to read element and attribute names, and see 
how things nest.

For archival purposes, of course, the simpler the markup, the better.

Jonathan