> a lot of people who were criticizing XML a few years back because "schemas are complicated" and "XML is too verbose" are slowly realizing these things were in

> a lot of people who were criticizing XML a few years back because "schemas are complicated" and "XML is too verbose" are slowly realizing these things were invented for a reason Agreed, it's analogous to the way the programming language world has come around to realising the static type system folks had a point all along. I don't have much experience with XML so I can't speak to whether the other criticisms of XML make sense, especially regarding complexity.