XML is not S-ExpressionsThere exists a persistent meme that XML is just a new-fangled, verbose form of s-expressions. For example, "XML is little more than a notation for trees and for tree grammars, a verbose variant of Lisp S-expressions coupled with a poor man's BNF (Backus-Naur form)" and " a poor copy of sexprs." These people do not appreciate that s-expressions were simply not designed to solve the same pr
