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This example should that XML is decent as markup but for a configuration or data interchange format this kind of syntax is undesirable.

You have text with interspersed elements with the same name, how can this be represented in python other than a DOM?

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One of the other benefits of XML the author mentions solves this: if you don't want it, disallow it in your schema.

If I disallow everything I don't want from XML I just end up with a more verbose json that is harder to work with.

That's fine, then XML wouldn't be the proper tool for you and you shouldn't be using it, but I was responding to someone saying that they didn't want a specific thing (non-text inside certain tags) which XML supports.

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