Flutterby™! :

So I proposed this XML format for Calendars and someone immediately points me to RFC 2445 , and as I look at writing a parser for each (once I think I understand the latter) I realize that it's easier to deal with the non-XML one.

I think people have gone overboard with the whole XML thing, there's a place where this sort of free-form tagged data is appropriate, but the more I play with it the more I believe that for simply moving data between systems it's a bad idea.

Which, of course, means "Buy Stock!"