> In XMLVM, byte code-based programs are represented as XML documents. This allows manipulation and translation of XMLVM-based programs using advanced XML technologies such as XSLT, XQuery, and XPath.
Oh, come on. While I dislike XML as much as anyone, I can definitely see the advantages of representing an AST as XML and manipulating using a functional language (e.g. XSLT). I think the Stratego languages also do something similar, and they seemed to be quite effective last time I checked.
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