> Comments, schemas, and namespaces were there for a reason
Oh, surely. The one largest problem of XML is that it's highly redundant. Nobody complains about those, just that it's verbose, had to write, and hard to locate oneself on the hierarchy when reading. All of those are caused by the redundancy. (Oh, and there is the issue that DTDs have an incredibly complex language that nobody knows entirely...)
As a rule, if it's a good feature for a programming language, it's also a good feature for a textual data encoding language. Ditto for bad features.
Oh, surely. The one largest problem of XML is that it's highly redundant. Nobody complains about those, just that it's verbose, had to write, and hard to locate oneself on the hierarchy when reading. All of those are caused by the redundancy. (Oh, and there is the issue that DTDs have an incredibly complex language that nobody knows entirely...)
As a rule, if it's a good feature for a programming language, it's also a good feature for a textual data encoding language. Ditto for bad features.