I sadly encountered the XML Situps pic about a year and a half ago - It was funny but I could not laugh! You see I was knee deep in the middle of porting content from a proprietary (Coldfusion based LMS) to Blackboard via their IMS-CP format (a zip make up of a manifest/hierarchy and xml files for each tool/content type used in the course/unit). I still recall trying to port a Quiz with multiple choice questions to the IMS-QTI spec. Would you believe it if I told you that a single multiple choice question represented in the IMS-QTI xml format takes up 150 lines? Probably not!!!!!

So now I still think this is funny and I can finally laugh out loud: XML Situps!