Yeah, it's a weird attitude. XML died out because it was an overcomplicated design-by-committee mess. Quite apart from the fact that meant it wouldn't map clean

Yeah, it's a weird attitude. XML died out because it was an overcomplicated design-by-committee mess. Quite apart from the fact that meant it wouldn't map cleanly to lists and hashmaps, necessitating a query language it also led to embarrassing debacles like the billion laughs vulnerability - problem in the very core of XML. With some niche exceptions where it has clung on, XML basically died. It's time to move on. The fact that we do similar sorts of stuff with JSON like data transformations and schema validation does not, in any way, shape or form, invalidate its flaws.