Comment by jlarocco
5 months ago
It's funny to hear people in the comments here talk about XML in the past tense.
I know it's passé in the web dev world, but in my work we still work with XML all the time. We even have work in our queue to add support for new data sources built on XML (specifically QIF https://qifstandards.org/).
It's fine with me... I've come to like XML. It's nice to have a standard, easy way to do seschemas, validators, processors, queries, etc. It can be overdone and it's not for every use case, but it's pretty good at what it does.
I've come to think that XML will be with us for decades and probably follow us when we leave the small blue planet.
In my military work, I've heard the senior project managers refer to a modern battleship as a floating XML document.
> I know it's passé in the web dev world...
That is because the web dev world is unfortunately obsessed with the current thing. They chase trends like their lives depend on it.