> I'd echo the linked article's argument back: I don't know of a case where XML is the best option. From the article: > “I’m making a new kind of book, and I

> I'd echo the linked article's argument back: I don't know of a case where XML is the best option. From the article: > “I’m making a new kind of book, and I need to annotate all of the verses in the Bible, and have the chapter headings and stuff.” XML is a markup language, and works great for marking up text. It came out of SGML and attempts to make machine-usable documentation. I'd favour its use in something like a datasheet, which is a combination of human-readable information, nested objects, and lots of stuff that needs to be machine parseable in fairly precise ways. IMO it also works "fine" for other structured document formats that aren't text, like SVG, but that's not a strong opinion. JSON and other formats compete more sensibly here, but I'd never want a protobuf-based format for... writing an essay, for example.