@worldsendless there isn't anything wrong with plain XML it just got a bad name from being used improperly by Java. You were supposed to write SGML by hand and it had tooling to make that suck less and then XML was a standard form of SGML that was only supposed to be edited by tooling. But we lost all the tooling and java bongos took over and forgot that part so it ended up with a machine format being edited by hand and it was like when assembly coderds were trying to write RISC: absolute friction.

Writing JSON by hand is also shit BTW; no comments and trailing comma management. But there's a cool JSON.parse that saves me from having to iterate a Dom!