On: On Getting Older in Tech

[kazinator]

I dislike XML because it's a nested tree of internal nodes and typeless character string leaves.

In XML I have no way to place "255" and "FF" in such a way that XML understands them to be the same object, of integer type.

[lisper → kazinator]

Sure you do. <base10>255</base10> <base16>FF</base16>