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XML was a great idea but the markup was tedious and verbose.

JSON is too simplistic.

Something built from s-expressions would probably have been ideal but we've known that for 70 years.



What would that look like?


Look up "SXML" for an example of what that might look like. There's many other ways to do it, though.




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