[njharman]

> we stop using it for hand-edited configuration.

Bing, Bing, Bing. We have a winnar!!!

XML sucks in large part not because of XML but because people used it for everything, everywhere in places it was highly ill-suited. Don't fuckup JSON the same way.

[sixbrx]

I actually like xml about as much as anything else for complicated config files. I find the explicit (named) block closing tags to help readability.