>>>>> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:59:42 -0700,
      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org> said:

>> lack of readability in XML is a major concern.

> I guess I just don't find the XML unreadable.  Again, that may be  
> that I'm saturated in it at my Day Job :-) 

For me, the readability of XML depends on its schema.
For example, XHTML and DocBook are mostly readable for me (although
I sometimes feels it's somewhat lengthy...).
On the otherhand, I don't think XML RPC format is human friendly,
because it's too redundant and too lengthy.

> But also, I didn't want to create some new format, I wanted to use
> something that was already in wide use...

How about JSON (*1) or YAML (*2), then?
It seems both formats are more compact than XML.

(*1) http://www.json.org/
     http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crockford-jsonorg-json-04.txt
(*2) http://www.yaml.org/
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