Quoting Rob Townley <rob.townley@gmail.com>:
Even though i argued for using XML in about everything, the verbosity of many of XML projects subconsciously drove me away from programming, in particular, the XML MS products would spew out. However, judicious use of namespaces would help some. i remember having trouble with some of the dtd's when using a namespace version of an xml doc, so i wasn't able to use namespaces back then as much as i would have liked.
You are certainly right on the verbosity topic.XML certainly has it's place. I believe it is perfect for control/metadata/transactional data; outside of that ... I feel it brings too much overhead.
Later, George.