Perhaps I don't have the appropriate history, but XML did a fine job of doing what it was supposed to do. I don't know of any other method (at the time of XML's inception) that allowed you to throw arbitrary fields into a file, describe them all, describe their relationships and reasonably convey to the user what you can do with all of it, and be human readable and be machine readable all at the same time.
Perhaps I'm an idiot and JSON's a lot older than I'm giving it credit for, but I thought XML was (and still is) a decent tool. I also don't think that it's overly verbose given how descriptive it can be.
Perhaps I'm an idiot and JSON's a lot older than I'm giving it credit for, but I thought XML was (and still is) a decent tool. I also don't think that it's overly verbose given how descriptive it can be.