alt Hacker NewsAnd a recent HN article had a bunch of comments lamenting that nobody ever uses XML any more, and talking about how much better it was than things like JSON.
The only thing I think I learned from some of those exchanges was that xslt adherents are approximately as vocal as lisp adherents.
> a recent HN article had a bunch of comments lamenting that nobody ever uses XML any more
I still use it from time to time for config files that a developer has to write. I find it easier to read that JSON, and it supports comments. Also, the distinction between attributes and children is often really nice to have. You can shoehorn that into JSON of course, but native XML does it better.
Obviously, I would never use it for data interchange (e.g. SOAP) anymore.