points by xp84 3 days ago | 0 comments
Don't forget the Microsoft and the competing Open Office's twin XML formats.
Basically it's like a list of everything that was clean-sheet invented like ~ 1996-2007 used XML, then over the course of about 2 years it transitioned, and almost nothing invented after 2009 or so used it. It was like the whole software industry realized what a huge mistake and pivoted to JSON, all at once.
XML is better for modelling mixed content data such as documents ((X)HTML, JATS, DocBook, etc.), images (SVG), or math (MathML). That is why XML is still used in publishing, standards, etc.