problem is in that 90% of applications does not need to process mixed-content documents, yet because XML was the new cool-and-interoperable-solution-to-everythi

problem is in that 90% of applications does not need to process mixed-content documents, yet because XML was the new cool-and-interoperable-solution-to-everything it got to be used for anything and mainly for things that are only simple structured data. Probably because you can abuse it for that and as a bonus you get lots of tools (like XSLT)