XML overuse? (was Re: Python to XML to Python conversion)

In article <aglv0h$u57$1 at slb7.atl.mindspring.net>,
Matt Gerrans <mgerrans at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> XML combines all the inefficiency of text-based formats with most of the>> unreadability of binary formats :-)>>Maybe it was surreptitiously introduced by a consortium of router and disk>drive manufacturers, to ensure increasing sales of hardware, by its>voracious appetite for bandwidth and disk space.  ;-)>>

CORBA people *know* this is true.
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