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Originally Posted by Hitch
As far as machine-readability, @skreutzer, were that true, we'd be using XML and XSLT. We're not. That should tell us all something, I'd think. However, if that were the goal, I'd argue for XML, simply because it's already well-established and in large document-archival systems, already in place (like medical records, etc.).
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Well, if you construct EPUBs, the XHTML is XML, the NCX is XML, the OPF is XML. I don't know how you would generate an XHTML-TOC automatically, but XSLT would be a more flexible way to do that for programmers than to implement it in static code. But we don't need to furtherly discuss this, because, XML formats being plain-text files too, are for most people not easy to read and write and also inflict even more overhead of typing it, that's exactly why someone would consider to use Markdown and generate an EPUB full of XML files from it.