I don't understand why you are being downvoted. You're absolutely right, though I'd nitpick and say not say "untyped" but that the only types that XML gives you

I don't understand why you are being downvoted. You're absolutely right, though I'd nitpick and say not say "untyped" but that the only types that XML gives you are dom nodes and strings. Contrast that with JSON, which provides booleans, numbers, and the list and object composite types. (side rant: as a standard JSON does not define whether it's numbers are integers, floats, or decimals! a conforming implementation can use whatever type it wants). Yes, XML has (multiple) schema definition languages that can be used to enforce that the strings can be coerced into specific types, but XML itself conveys no type information in-band about the values. I think this is one of the reasons it is difficult read and write by hand.