Nuclear take: XML is actually a great format for adding metadata to unstructured text. It just sucks for representing structured data, which is, uh, what all the tooling and tutorials assume you're using it for
Update, I solved this with XML, making it the first and possibly only time in my career that XML was the right tool for the job
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Why would you want to add metadata to unstructured text? To get metafiles, of course! I'm using it to store a series of iterations to a piece of code in one file, which I then use for making tutorials
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You can tell this is Not Intended Use Case because all the tools are super weird about text following tags that aren't in other tags, even though that's the whole benefit of XML over JSON and YAML— inline markup
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