[Verse 1] They promised magic in the markup maze LegalRuleML would revolutionize our days But angle brackets buried every clause so deep That lawyers drowse and compliance officers weep Academic papers praised the nested scheme While practitioners abandoned the dream [Chorus] Nested tags and broken dreams XML ain't what it seems OASIS stamped it, made it standard But the world just left it stranded Nested tags and broken dreams Readability's not what it seems [Calls out] Where's the tooling? Where's the community? Where's the execution engine? [Verse 2] Since twenty-seventeen it held official weight An industry adoption rate approaching gate Zero commercial platforms took the bait No reference implementations worth debate The specification reads like dissertation prose But converting legacy frameworks? Nobody knows [Chorus] Nested tags and broken dreams XML ain't what it seems OASIS stamped it, made it standard But the world just left it stranded Nested tags and broken dreams Readability's not what it seems [Bridge] Representation without runtime power Format without execution's final hour Academic rigor meets practical void Compliance automation dreams destroyed Beautiful theory crashes on implementation shore Perfect standards that nobody uses anymore [Verse 3] Obligation statements wrapped in markup hell Twelve levels deep where simple rules should dwell No methodology for migration paths No best practices for compliance tasks The promise faded like morning mist Another standard that won't be missed [Final Chorus] Nested tags and broken dreams Perfect plans ain't what they seem Standards need more than committee blessing They need adoption worth confessing Nested tags and broken dreams LegalRuleML's forgotten schemes [Outro] When specifications meet reality's test Sometimes simpler solutions prove the best
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