Try to write a XML document with open and improperly nested tags and see what happens.
The future is XML powered sites:
http://www.webproworld.com/web-site-...documents.html
You will find a more thorough WPW discussion on your topic. Please read this
CSS Destroyed My Rankings
thread, before you continue the discussion.
My conclusion:
You are in good company advocating spagetti coding / markup
