No there was no itch, I stumbled upon aXML whilst wandering in the wilderness of programming ignorance after leaving college because I was bored. It looked like a shiny pebble so I picked it up and polished it and polished it, until it shone. Now 5 years or so later, after investing a lot of time and effort, I think of it as a diamond and I would not exchange it for anything.

No classically trained computer scientist would ever conceive of doing things they way they are done in aXML, it's heretical to it's core... but it works, and it has some marvelous properties!