[JSR308] Replace JAIF format with XML for external annotations

[Bill Pugh]

The JSR308 web pages proposal JAIF as an format for annotations  
external to both source and classfiles.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/pag/jsr308/annotation-file-utilities/

While I think that an external textual representation is a great  
idea, I am very dubious about having a representation described by a  
BNF grammar:
	 http://groups.csail.mit.edu/pag/jsr308/annotation-file-format.pdf

David Hovemeyer put some effort into parsing this, and it is taking  
more time than I would have hoped.

Why don't we just use an XML representation for the JAIF files?  
Parsing is so 20th century.


Bill