[tomphoolery]

Unfortunately, XML is way too open-ended for my tastes. You end up getting entire rows of DB content (with full text paragraphs and everything) entirely in one tag, with attributes and values. There are so many options that you typically get a lot of idiot programmers who don't understand the purpose of all the shit in XML, so they fuck up their implementation.

Simply put, XML does not correctly model the data by which we intend to interchange. It was a noble effort, but it didn't come from a place of innovation. It came from corporate needs for standardization.