it is easy to paint XML as anachronistic, and as crude serialization format it certainly is. but as many analogies, that only goes so far. there is still the ex

it is easy to paint XML as anachronistic, and as crude serialization format it certainly is. but as many analogies, that only goes so far. there is still the excellent tooling (XSLT, DTD, schematron..) and the fact that there are elaborate data modeling use cases still using it because there is nothing that comes close to that combination of expressivity and tooling. take for example the TEI: https://tei-c.org https://tei-c.org you could do it with OWL or UML of course, but would you, really? in some ways we haven't really explored the possibilities of data modeling. there is things that json+some schema will never be able to do. ps: i enjoyed the article.