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reminds me of a description of MSFT's first XML-based office file formats (not sure if its true or was a joke) but it went something like

<xml> <office-proprietary-binary-blob> wky4b5tlwybkjbb2... </office-proprietary-binary-blob> </xml>

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I kind of remember a massive CDATA blob... but my memory must be playing tricks on me: Wikipedia shows some sample markup of the pre-2007 Microsoft Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats) and it doesn't look bad at all.

And it seems after 2007 they switched to an ECMA standard.

In all fairness, during the first XML migration, I'm sure internal MS folks were just as baffled at the previous format.

Xml is an open standard man, just pretend your Neo from the Matrix reading the screen saver

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