I'm curious as well. Really. I've been doing styles for a little while now and haven't had to touch the xml except to download it and zip it up with the graphics
Inner-workings would be defined as 'Download -> Edit'. If you edit the style via a text editor, it will be in XML format. Aside from editor-based editing, you don't need to know XML, rather, you should be aquainted with (X)HTML (2 completely different things).
Perhaps it was a typo originally, though you need not know XML to produce a vBulletin style, you need only know how to upload it via the Admin CP .
Actually we have 5 new ones in development. Nothing like you've ever seen before. They will be available through our commercial division this fall, or sooner if we can find a way to put more than 24 hours in a day
Inner-workings would be defined as 'Download -> Edit'. If you edit the style via a text editor, it will be in XML format. Aside from editor-based editing, you don't need to know XML, rather, you should be aquainted with (X)HTML (2 completely different things).
Perhaps it was a typo originally, though you need not know XML to produce a vBulletin style, you need only know how to upload it via the Admin CP .
Like most companies our company policy is that we're pretty tight-lipped about revealing too much information before we've formally announced a product.
Stay tuned, though... our dev team is hard at work