AlternativesToXml is a page on solutions that replace the use of Xml completely, or reduce the dependence on raw Xml programming tasks, through the use of higher level tools.

Situations where proposed solutions replace the use of Xml completely include:
* RelationalAlternativeToXml (Which spreads into FusdxDiscussion and FlirtDataTextFormat)
* YamlAintMarkupLanguage (YAML)
* JavaScriptObjectNotation (JSON)
* XmlIsaPoorCopyOfEssExpressions
* ClearSilverHierarchicalDataFormat
* ONX = Open Node Syntax - http://www.seairth.com/web/onx/onx.html
* AbstractSyntaxNotationOne - ASN.1
* Ordered Graph Data Language (OGDL) - http://ogdl.sourceforge.net/
* Sofu - http://sofu.sourceforge.net/
* WikiMarkup - For text
* ZCDSF (see: ZcdsfFileFormat)

for XSLT only:
* XSLScript = a more user-friendly syntax for XSLT - http://www.pault.com/XSLScript/pault/prod/XSLScript
* XSLTXT = the XSLT compact form - http://www.zanthan.com/ajm/xsltxt/index.html / http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/xsltxt

Resources on WardsWiki that discuss facilities that reduces the pain of Xml
* LispByTheBackDoor

On formatting XML:
* GroupRelatedData
* WBXML (Wireless Binary XML) - a tokenized (compressed) representation for XML, used in WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)
* Binary Optimized XML (BOX) - a tokenized (compressed) representation for XML, intended to be simpler than WBXML, and in particular to provide very easy SAX support - http://box.sourceforge.net/

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"A Quick Visual Comparison of XML Shorthands"
 http://www.scottsweeney.com/static/projects/slip/XMLShorthandComparison.htm
Includes...
* SLiP = a "Sorta Like Python" shorthand for XML
* PYX = XML Processing Library for Python - http://pyxie.sourceforge.net/
* YAML = YamlAintMarkupLanguage
* SXML = Scheme (EssExpression) syntax for XML
* SOX = XML structure represented by indention ''[kind of like a cross between XML and YAML]''

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Other AlternativesToXml pages found on the 'net:
* removed: www.pault.com/pault/pxml/xmlalternatives.html -- this site doesn't exists anymore
* http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/projects/markup/survey/
* http://www.scottsweeney.com/projects/slip -- see list under "Similar Alternatives:" heading
* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tersexml/
* http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4506 -- XDR: External Data Representation Standard
* http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3072 -- SDXF: Structured Data Exchange Format
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Data_Representation


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