It seems to me the misunderstanding here is that XML was ever intended to be generated directly by typing in a text editor. It was rather intended (unless I'm mistaken) as a process-to-process data interchange metalanguage that would be *human_readable*.
The premise that XML had a coherent design intent stetches my credulity beyond its elastic limit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
