Re: Re: software design clarification

> (However, I can't resist pointing out that I very strongly believe XML to be
> the wrong tool for the job. See http://www.rdb.com/demo/XML/ for why.)

I like the rant by Graydon Hoare, too. I guess that a least common 
denominator will be a kind of DOM API if you prefer binary formats for 
internal tree processing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model

Regards,
Markus