Prai Jei wrote:
> My main gripe against XML is that it's so verbose. In this particular
> application, tags and antitags take up more than ten times as much space as
> the actual data being sent. CSV was *so* much more compact.

CSV is for rectangular data one level deep. If that is the extent of 
your data, then possibly CSV is a better way to represent it.

Try representing the following in CSV. It might be possible, but I 
submit that XML was the correct choice in this instance.

<div0 type="law tract">
   <div1 type="primary text">
     <p><lb n="4"><term id="g1">Is mesiuch cach fear fine cunai a
     fintiud</term> <term id="g2">naide rean</term> <term id="g3">naide
     <lb n="5">sannu</term> <term id="g4">naide fotlean</term> <term
     id="g5">naide fuich cintuib</term> <term id="g6">na coruib is mesi
     imusfuich</term> <term id="g7">curu a fine</term> <lb n="6"><term
     id="g8"> imfuich cach curud a comfocuis</term> <term id="g9">mad e
     araneastur a <lb n="7">cintu &ampersir;</term> <term id="g10">a
     rathu</term> <term id="g11">&ampersir; a curu</term> <term
     id="g12">&ampersir a chiniuda</term> <term id="g13">&ampersir; a
     gnimu orba</term> <term id="g14">cu niarduige <lb n="8">gaire
     adruidleacht finntiu</term></p></div1> <div1 type="glossatorial
     text"> <p><gloss target="g1">.i. <lb n="9">is cuimgeach cach fear
     coimed a feruinn cin a rec fri indetbirius ar .s.uibh</gloss> <lb
     n="10">urchruide <gloss target="g2">.i. im ni de</gloss> <gloss
     target="g3">.i. uime uile, &lstrok; fo taob mic foesaim d'ainfine
     <lb n="11">.i. na sgailend</gloss> <gloss target="g4">.i. fo taeb
     mic faesuim, ima rec a nindetbirus</gloss> <gloss
     target="g5">.i. <lb n="12">indetbiri ele</gloss> <gloss
     target="g6">.i. indetbiri .i. celsine indligthech</gloss><gloss
     target="g7">.i. is cuimgiuch &eacute; <lb n="13">eim-fuaitriudh na
     cor doniat in finechaire</gloss> <gloss target="g8">is eim fuaitrius
     cac curu inti <lb n="14">is comfochus don finechaire o bias
     amluidh-sin</gloss> <gloss target="g9">.i. ma &eacute; urfethius a
     cinta <lb n="15">coisi &ampersir; laime</gloss> <gloss
     target="g10">.i. a cinta rathachuis .i. fri hannsguiche .i. a gnim
     raithe &ampersir; <lb n="16">etire</gloss> <gloss
     target="g11">.i. fri sguiche .i. fuaitriud cor etar dis</gloss>
     <gloss target="g12">.i. altrum a clainne</gloss> <gloss
     target="g13"><lb n="17">.i. d'fuba &ampersir; do ruba</gloss> <gloss
     target="g14">.i. nach gnim dlegar den orbar, &ampersir gaire na <lb
     n="18">seanfine biti cin clainn, rodligustur finntiu de-sium sin
     .i. cusin iarum-dighe <lb n="19">is adha do dlechtuin don fir fine,
     gaire int senorach coitcind. i. do neoch <lb n="20">dligus a gaire a
     finntiud</gloss></p>
   </div1>
</div0>

///Peter
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