to be fair >XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the Internet. is machine to machine communication to me, XML is an example of worse is better, or rath

to be fair >XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the Internet. is machine to machine communication to me, XML is an example of worse is better, or rather, better is worse. it would never have come out of Bell Labs in the early 70s. Neither would JSON for that matter.