accept xml instead of plain Python text?

[Edward K. Ream]

I am wondering whether that has been any discussion of a project like the
following in the Python world:

- jezix http://www.tel.fer.hr/users/mtopol/jezix/
- javaml http://sourceforge.net/projects/javaml/

The general idea is that it would sometimes be nice to be able to feed xml
to the Python parser instead of plain text.  I can think of several reasons
why this would be _inconvenient_ for the Python community.  Foremost among
them would be that no plain-text tool would work with xml'zed Python.

Has the subject been discussed in the Python community? If so, where?  I
suspect this is a bad (or cumbersome) idea, but I'd like to be sure :-)
Thanks.

Edward
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