The more one learns about XML, the less of a glow surrounds the
technology... I suppose following the trend, those who *truly*
understand XML would never *use* it. - David Mertz
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I've always said that humans shouldn't be forced to read/write XML
and that goes for programmers, too. Writing a programming language
in XML format [XSLT] seems like the perversion of a sadist to me.
 - David Abrahams
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SOAP is XML-RPC attacked by Microsoft and a committee. It's hard to read
the specs without laughing, and harder to try to interoperate with someone
using Microsoft's broken^Wenhanced implementation of it without crying.
 - David Ripton, July 2004
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It's rare that XML is the right choice for anything but a marshalling
format or document markup. I do object to "XML will save the world"
attitudes, though. It's a data format, for crying out loud, not a
mission in life. - Phillip J. Eby, dirtSimple.org, March 2005
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I have no interest in continuing down the J2EE path. I have seen
Enterprise Java Beans with container managed persistence mappers
that give me nightmares. I have seen Spring and Hibernate, and it
seems like a terrible misuse and abuse of XML. I would like to drop
Java like a hot rock at this point. - Andrew Smith, June 2006