XML overuse? (was Re: Python to XML to Python conversion)

[holger krekel]

Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
> Readability for machines does not have to come at the expense of readability
> for humans.  A few years back I experimented with an indentation based data
> format that is:
> 
> - as readable as emacs's outline mode
> - reduce to common conventions like this paragraph for simple cases
> - allow mixed nested structures of set, sequence, dictionary, and seqdict
> - can include binary data 
> - can handle different encodings/encryptions in different elements
> - with average less than 5% bloat, in contrast to XML's over 100% bloat

do you have any code or design documents for this?  

Sounds quite interesting.

    holger