It's so easy to look back at XML with ridicule, sitting on the hill of json pragmatism success. But take a moment to consider what we had before XML. Yes, XML w

It's so easy to look back at XML with ridicule, sitting on the hill of json pragmatism success. But take a moment to consider what we had before XML. Yes, XML was awesome. Back then you'd consider yourself lucky working with data available in a format that had implementations across multiple operating systems.