Not that I'm aware of.  The purpose of xml, as far as I know, is to make 
formatting a human-editable characteristic of whatever text it is used on.  
Or at least, that's one of its major purposes - another being to simplify the 
development of filters to edit text automatically and as part of a workflow.

My 0.02c - no longer legal tender ... ;)

Wesley Parish

On Tuesday 04 December 2007 13:44, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, December 4, 2007 12:50 pm, Zane Gilmore wrote:
> > Any old text editor should do.
> > I've found kate to do at least syntax highlighting.
> >
<snip>
> Isn't it the case that the purpose of xml is to be machine readable and
> writable, but its not really for human writing & reading - except in the
> simplest of cases?

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