Xml is a beast to parse. It's slow to parse and verbose but it doesn't give you a human friendly text format. It's got a number of weird features inherited from

Xml is a beast to parse. It's slow to parse and verbose but it doesn't give you a human friendly text format. It's got a number of weird features inherited from sgml. Every parser needs a quirks mode since nobody can write good schemas and schema parsers. XML is a really bad interchange format. It's OK for a document markup language, and that's where it survives.