The idea of " . NAME ." was spawned by a discussion between friends, one of them complaining about the tedious (and boring) process of writing XML parsers; a repetitive task, and one for which no automatic tools exist.

After some discussion, the main idea was to create a Bison like tool to generate XML parsers.

An other repetitive task of the process is creating data classes and their interfaces that store XML data. This task is easily automatizable, so it should be possible to create a tool to generate XML parsers and corresponding Data Classes

The name of this software comes from one of the authors' passions; mountains and Marmots, and this name is the Irc nickname of the person who came up with the idea.