> But that's exactly the purpose of markup language. Nobody is saying XML is easier to read than a table generated from XML. Neither is HTML, LaTeX, or any others. [...] The output of the CLI tool is suppose to be a better reading format.
The original vision for angle-bracket markup (SGML) includes support for custom Wiki syntaxes (SGML SHORTREF), tag inference, and other affordances for compact, hand-writable text. In fact, SGML can be seen as a language to specify cues for turning markdown-like text with arbitrary custom extensions into strict fully tagged hierarchical XML.
The original vision for angle-bracket markup (SGML) includes support for custom Wiki syntaxes (SGML SHORTREF), tag inference, and other affordances for compact, hand-writable text. In fact, SGML can be seen as a language to specify cues for turning markdown-like text with arbitrary custom extensions into strict fully tagged hierarchical XML.