alt Hacker NewsThis is performance art, right? The very first bullet point it starts with is extolling the merits of XSD. Even back in the day when XML was huge, XSD was widely recognized as a monstrosity and a boondoggle -- the real XMLheads were trying to make RELAX NG happen, but XSD got jammed through because it was needed for all those monstrous WS-* specs.
XML did some good things for its day, but no, we abandoned it for very good reasons.
xslt was a stripped down dsssl in xml syntax.
dsssl was the scheme based domain specific "document style semantics and and specification language"
the syntax change was in the era of general lisp syntax bashing.
but to xml syntax? really? that was so surreal to me.