About XML as an equivalent to LISP : I guess you're thinking of The emacs problem. A fantastic article, that unfortunately looks unavailable right now.
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I'm sure it was something here on PerlMonks. But it's quite likely that even the author of that node would not know I mean his node. They were probably discussing something completely unrelated and this was just an unimportant sidenote.
Anyway, there are a few more things i want to add to the module before I release it to CPAN, but generaly I think this particular apple found the right head to hit ;-)
Well, I actually found it from http://plasmasturm.org, which is the weblog from a well known and esteemed Monk... Aristotle. BTW, the fantastic article about XML as Lisp is back online here :
The Emacs problem