[hinkley]

XML turned everyone into a language designer during an era where we already knew that language design was a rare skill.

If I saw a schema, which I often didn’t, it usually didn’t say what the author thought it said. To a first order approximation, all the good ones I saw came from one tool (XMLSpy possibly?)

Namespaces ended up in a sort of uncanny valley that I can’t quite do justice to.

[agumonkey]

I'd even classical OO did the same.