[zvr]

I completely agree that it is the best choice for a document language.

To the point that I have to ask: what other alternatives are there?

[davidpapermill]

It's a good question. We had a previous language, JDoc, based in JSON. It covered only part of the functionality of the XML-based language and was really only for machine-machine.

We researched a bunch of others: languages like LaTeX and Typst are obvious alternatives. We also considered a super-augmented version of Markdown. Even looked at YAML.