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XML is still used all over the place; it's not exactly one foot in the grave.

I just used XSLT for user edited SVG sanitization (whitelisting of elements and attributes) and I'm still in a shock how easy was it. I'll miss XML

Yeah, but the common XML stack of technologies doesn't show up in job announcements anymore. (XSLT, XSD).

Often people are maintaining code that is built on top of XML.

99% of advertised jobs with XSL, XSDT, UML, etc never actually required them for day to day work.

XML is still huge in corp land. In Healthcare, HL7 is gradually moving to an XML version. SOAP is everywhere, JSON is not. Horses for courses.

Getting somewhat far afield of the OP, but in healthcare, the bigger trend seems to be a move from HL7v2 past the dumpster fire that was XML-based HL7v3 to JSON-based FHIR.

They'll turn json into a dumpster fire to, it's just tradition at this point.

I think xml with it's great validation and inter-operability is still the best choice for something like HL7 though.

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