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 William, greetings. On 23 Nov 2021, at 18:21, William David Velasquez wrote: <ext:UBLExtension> <ext:ExtensionContent> <SWMaker> <SWMakerInfo> <Name>FirstName</Name> <Value>Erick</Value> <Name>LastName</Name> <Value>Rich</Value> <Name>SWName</Name> <Value>FancySoft v.1.0</Value> </SWMakerInfo> </SWMaker> </ext:ExtensionContent> </ext:UBLExtension> and I'm expecting customer won't be open to accept the change, because the actual structure can do the work.One possible tack is to note that the key-value structure is highly unidiomatic XML, so XML tools will always work poorly with it (you're mentioned a couple of examples of what one might call 'impedance mismatches' already), and it is thus building in technical debt by design. If the context is such that there is a set of key-value pairs being serialised in this way, for in-principle arbitrary keys, then the conclusion may be that XML is a poor way of doing this serialisation. Use JSON instead (cf the discussion on this list in the last few weeks). I think this is quite a good example of XML not being the right answer for every problem, and indeed this is the sort of solution that gives XML a bad name. If the conclusion is that there are key-value pairs, and this serialisation has got to have pointy brackets in it (kos that's what the kool kidz are doing these days), then potentially use plist format [1]. I don't think anyone believes that .plist was a good Apple design decision, but there are at least libraries for it, and no-one has to waste their good energies trying to put a different shade of lipstick on this particular pig. I see that there's at least some 'ext:' XML namespacing happening there, so another one surely wouldn't hurt. (I don't think <Name>/<Value> is a great design, by the way) Best wishes, Norman [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list -- Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK 
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