Re: [xml-dev] XML Redux

One of the keys though is to notice the evolution through this and the next post on the thread, and the point that I've tried to emphasis - the notation is  largely immaterial, the data model is not.

Any notation that involves the use of non-tagged delimiters is going to run into the Lisp dilemma of too many parentheses. Personally, I prefer working with XML syntax myself because it is usually much easier to determine when you have a misplaced ending tag (as my example illustrates, even if unwittingly), but even if we use a more XMLish notation, it's still necessary to recognize that angle-bracket serialized XML doesn't have a formal concept of lists or sequences that aren't nodal in nature. XQuery does. The syntax differs, but