Oh my yes. “XML all the things” was very much a hot trend in the early 00s. I’m even guilty of getting caught up in it. I hand-coded a handful of docbook docs f

Oh my yes. “XML all the things” was very much a hot trend in the early 00s. I’m even guilty of getting caught up in it. I hand-coded a handful of docbook docs for no good reason, and then even bemoaned not having XSLT tooling. In retrospect DSSSL was the better formatting thing, and XML docbook was horrendously complicated. I’m prone to Stockholm syndrome relationships with technology, but XML Docbook / XSLT eventually popped my self delusion bubble.