[_micheee]

We do XML processing, albeit with XQuery, as a small business.

It is a very niche solution but actually very stable and quite handy for all kinds of data handling; web-based applications and APIs as it nicely integrates with all kinds of text-based formats such as JSON, CSV or XML.

Yet I can easily comprehend how people get lost in all kinds of standards, meta-standards, DTDs, schemas, namespaces, and modeling the whole enterprise in SOAP.

However, you can do simple things simply and small, but in my experience, most tools promised to solve problems with ever-layered complexities.

Little disclaimer, I am probably biased, as I am with BaseX, an open-source XQuery processor :-)

[cyocum]

I am a BaseX user and I really appreciate it! I actually do not mind XML at all. XQuery and BaseX makes searching large numbers of XML file or just one large XML file really easy.