Yeah but most projects I worked on used soap as a data format. I had to interface with a french administration that parsed the xml manually (poeple printed and

Yeah but most projects I worked on used soap as a data format. I had to interface with a french administration that parsed the xml manually (poeple printed and read it) and an american administration that used regex to read the xml. Just having devs reading the dom correctly, including namespaces, is a rare occurence. It's sad, but we are living in a time were too many software is written, and not enough competent devs are available. So simplicity, again, wins.