Maybe Angle brackets are a red herring
(maybe they hate end tags)
- “Another annoying feature of XML is closing tags” — myarch.com
- “Why stick the complete element name at the beginning and end of every element? The computer doesn’t need all that jibber jabber” — XML Sucks wiki.c2.com
- “Intermixing data that needs to be processed with tags that serve as delimiters for this data, makes comprehension more difficult” — myarch.com