It’s everybody’s favorite punching bag. Delivered direct from the heavenly spaces one IP address short of Digital Nirvana, XML was going to be the bread and jam and toast of the Millenial Computing Revolution. XML was going to cure insomnia and halitosis, raise the dead, fill our cavities and walk the dog. It was going to be fucking great and all you had to do was learn how to type < and > and know where to put the slashes.