[mahyarm]

People dislike XML because it's way overkill for %99 of people's use cases but it still gets used anyway! Most people who use it should of been using something simpler like JSON to create their configuration file or return their list of strings in some HTTP API. You can have bloody security vulnerabilities with XML, like you had recently with facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BugBounty/posts/778897822124446

The likelihood of a JSON feature biting you in the ass like that is far lower. Don't use XML until you actually need something XML SPECIFICALLY provides.

Also JSON easily translates with easy to work with dictionaries and lists, XML parsers take more code to work with equivalent items.