Unintentionally starting an XML debate

It's interesting to see that some developers really are okay with accepting XML for what it has become, thanks to tools/abstractions that make it easy to cope with. I don't think they actually feel as if they are coping though, but rather they are consuming something that is good in principle or even design.

Edit: I'm really just regurgitating stuff I've read in the past on HN and comp.lang.lisp (namely posts by Kaz Kylheku and Erik Naggum), including:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666611 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/tree/browse_fr... http://web.archive.org/web/20071231152902/xmlsucks.org/but_y...