What Data Format Exchange uses * and # instead of tags brackets?

[johnny_vr]

There is a Web Service that returns this XML as a result for a GET.I want to know is this a famous Data Exchange Format ? or it just needs to be parsed normally ?or should I replace the * and # with normal brackets and handle it as a normal XML ?\[code\]<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">Count=56,*ProjectDataSet# *Project# *PROJ_UID#f6f08258-52dd-481a-83a5-013cce51d901*/PROJ_UID# *PROJ_NAME#5-2 Disaster Recovery site*/PROJ_NAME# *DVI#0*/DVI# */Project# *Project# *PROJ_UID#7abd8857-2a9a-4d2d-82c3-139fdac26994*/PROJ_UID# *PROJ_NAME#4-1 Automated Land Releasing System Phase II*/PROJ_NAME# *DVI#0*/DVI# */Project#*/ProjectDataSet# ###Duration: 00:00:24.5568479</string>\[/code\]