>In all seriousness I get the idea behind XML followed by >and I have used a couple of SOAP services which were absolutely brilliant makes me doubt the first

>In all seriousness I get the idea behind XML followed by >and I have used a couple of SOAP services which were absolutely brilliant makes me doubt the first part of the statement. If I were to guess what it means is you understand the point of SOAP, and also understand the limitations and problems especially as it relates to uses of XSD in SOAP and the various stack of Web Service specs, but you probably have not had much experience with non-XSD based validation of XML, you do not have any experience with document formats as opposed to data formats, you probably are not familiar with larger international standards like UBL, and not familiar with XML formats that are not so much data or document oriented - SVG, XSL-FO (which admittedly sucks more than is reasonable), GraphML and so forth... A lot of the commenters here are standing up for the value of XML, and I'm not actually with this comment, there are a lot of benefits for using JSON especially when you are using JavaScript all over the place. But saying XML sucks because XSD and SOAP sucks indicates a potential lack of knowledge about the whole subject (perhaps only caused by infelicitous phrasing)