> why would anyone ever use XML for anything? I ask myself that every day. XML is a huge scam perpetrated on the software industry, but now it is too late bec

> why would anyone ever use XML for anything? I ask myself that every day. XML is a huge scam perpetrated on the software industry, but now it is too late because a huge parasitic 'industry' has built around it, and too many people (specially too many PHBs) have invested their reputations on XML being the ultimate standard for representing data.