Comment by tzs
2 months ago
Aside from heavy use in the healthcare, finance, banking, retail, manufacturing, transportation, logistics, telecommunications, automotive, publishing, and insurance industries, w̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶R̶o̶m̶a̶n̶s̶ who uses XML?
I think you (and others) are misconstruing what I'm saying.
I'm not saying XML is unused.
I'm saying that the specific space where it's use can cause security problems from things like a DDOS are rare.
A legacy backend system that consumes XML docs isn't at risk of a malicious attacker injecting DDOS docs.
When XML is used for data interchange, it's typically only in circumstances where trusted parties are swapping XML docs. Where it's not typically being used is the open Internet. You aren't going to find many new rest endpoints emitting or consuming XML.
And the reason it's being used is primarily legacy. The format and parser are static. Swapping them out would be disruptive and gives few benefits.
That's what it means for something to increasingly become irrelevant. When new use slows or stops and development is primarily on legacy.