Xml fundamentally does not communicate when information under a tag is a list or a map structure, a data structure indication that is critical for deserializat

Xml fundamentally does not communicate when information under a tag is a list or a map structure, a data structure indication that is critical for deserialization of information into a format usable by programs. In addition, it has tons and tons and tons of cruft, specification bloat, dogma. The best parts of XML were probably XPath, and some aspects of document validation.. and that's it