Using non-xml application data structures

Question

I am developing a survey tool. The survey will be very static, and because of this, I can avoid creating a kind of desktop designer-researcher to post 167 questions in the survey (all questions on 1-5 ratings in a box with a radio or layout).

I was thinking about creating survey questions in a large XML file, but my non-technical employee who will make frequent changes to the survey is likely to do something that violates the integrity / validity of the original XML file (consider punctuation and special characters).

An XML file might look something like this:

    <questions>
    <question>
        <type>checkbox</type>
        <text>Which beers do you like most</text>
        <choices>Bud,Miller,Piels</choices>
        <Required>true</Required>
    </question>
    <question>
        <type>radio</type>
        <text>Which beer is your favorite</text>
        <choices>Bud,Miller,Piels</choices>
        <Required>true</Required>
    </question>
</questions>

Please use your imagination that this structure will be a little more complicated and that there will be 165 more questions.

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  questions q = new questions()
  
  q.type = "checkbox";
  q.text = "which beers do you enjoy"'
  q.choices = "Bud,Miller,Peils";
  q.required = true;
  q.add
  
  q.type = "radio";
  q.text = "what is your favorite beer";
  q.choices = "Bud,Miller,Peils";
  q.required = true;
  q.add
  

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questions:
   - id:       1
     type:     checkbox
     text:     Which beers do you like most
     choices:  Bud,Miller,Piels
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   - id:       2
     type:     radio
     text:     Which beer is your favorite
     choices:  Bud,Miller,Piels
     Required: true

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If your colleagues do not have programming or xml editing experience, they will hate you if you instruct them to edit some kind of "code".
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