Michael Day ponders beautiful XML design on O'Reilly. "Given that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I had better define some criteria. To me, technology is beautiful when it achieves a balance between power and simplicity -- hitting a local maxima in the design space, if you will, such that it cannot be made any simpler without making it less powerful, and it cannot be made any more powerful without losing its simplicity."

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