Does XML Suck? Or: Why XML is Technologically Terrible, but You Have to Use It Anyway
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Crane, Aaron
XML Sucks
2002

Abstract:

XML purports to be a simple, vendor-neutral textual external representation for hierarchically-structured data. But...