Angle brackets in XML have a very bad reputation
- “I sure enjoy reading text files that don’t make me suffer through the XML angle bracket tax.”
- “I spend a disproportionate amount of my time wading through an endless sea of angle brackets and verbose tags desperately searching for the vaguest hint of actual information.”
- “Wouldn’t it be nice to have easily readable, understandable data and configuration files, without all those sharp, pointy angle brackets jabbing you directly in your ever-lovin’ eyeballs.”
From Jeff Atwood’s XML: The Angle Bracket Tax