With my occasional sysadmin hat on, until a few weeks ago I had the luck to never have had to deal with XML configuration files. Then came Solr and now I know

With my occasional sysadmin hat on, until a few weeks ago I had the luck to never have had to deal with XML configuration files. Then came Solr and now I know what horror is. (To be clear, Solr itself is great, but those god damn config files...)