[__david__]

And 99% of the time the JSON serialize/deserialize library is much simpler and straightforward than the XML one, especially if your language has native hashes and arrays.

There's also a bitter taste in many of our mouths left by the "XML All The Things!" crowd that brought us such monstrosities as Maven config files and XLST.

[cm2187]

XLST is useful when you want to change an Xml configuration file based on whether you are in debug or release mode, without having to duplicate the whole thing. But I wouldn't hold it against Xml, you only use it if you find it useful.

[__david__]

XLST the language is great. I love the idea, it's wonderful and powerful in practice.

XLST the syntax is an abomination. Trying to shoehorn a language syntax into XML was a stupid, stupid idea.