XML is a perfectly fine format that was (ab)used dreadfully by many, many people to such an extent that many people only have examples of completely dreadful XM

XML is a perfectly fine format that was (ab)used dreadfully by many, many people to such an extent that many people only have examples of completely dreadful XML as their reference. So many XML-as-interpreted-programming-language monstrosities out there (I know I wrote one as I had the perfect problem domain to use LISP but didn't have the environment capability to use LISP but did have a Database XML field to store 'data' in so I did XML-as-S-Expression with a SAX based interpreter - it was surprisingly nice).