With all due respect, since you are the editor of the MicroXML
specification, those two formats are good illustrations of where we
disagree. To a diligent implementor, both are far from simple. To take
.ini for example, some concerns off the top of my head:
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Adam [...] did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only
because it was forbidden. The mistake was not forbidding the serpent;
then he would have eaten the serpent. --Mark Twain