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I would like to see legislation passed in the U.S. that would prohibit the government from using any business related software that did not support an export to archive XML option. I would like to see mandated practices in government to call for saving to this easily readable format.

What schema in XML? What tags? XML can be every bit as proprietary as any other format. Even if the document is all human readable, there's no guarantee that the tags will have any semantic meaning to anyone in particular. Is he advocating a specific xml format? If so, which one? Is there a widely used xml schema for word processing type documents? This kind of suggestion sounds great on the surface, but it's just not that simple....