Five years ago I was a hardcore XML-hater (and an even more hardcore SOAP/WS-* hater), but these days I've sort of become an apologist for both. Not that XML ha

Five years ago I was a hardcore XML-hater (and an even more hardcore SOAP/WS-* hater), but these days I've sort of become an apologist for both. Not that XML has gotten any less ugly, I'm just annoyed at people mistaking superficial problems with deep problems, and start over every five years or so with a new syntax or something thinking it'll make those deep problems go away.