“Irrespective of the current uptake…, #XML has been a success. It proved that:
.You can have a #dataInterchange format that is radically independent of your computer architecture, operating system, programming language, and application.
.The only sane text standard for modern computing is #Unicode, which in practice is affordable and reasonably straightforward to use.
…the best thing about XML is nobody has to think about it any more. Oops…you just did. Sorry bout that.”

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/06/01/XML-and-JSON-in-2026