It makes sense that explaining why xml is great doesn’t work. Maybe you can convince someone who’s never worked with xml. But if someone has used xml and thinks

It makes sense that explaining why xml is great doesn’t work. Maybe you can convince someone who’s never worked with xml. But if someone has used xml and thinks it’s a bad format based on those experiences, you’ll need to bring _really_ good arguments to let them think it’s a good format anyway. Just ask yourself: could a comment here convince you that xml is a bad format? If not, why would the opposite work?