[bytefish]

What I miss the most about the XML ecosystem is the tooling. And I think, this is what most people are sentimental about. There was a time it was so easy to generate contracts using XSDs and it made it easy to validate the data. OpenAPI slowly reaches parity to what I worked with in 2006.

But what I do not miss is the over-engineering that happened in the ecosystem, especially with everything SOAP. Yes, when it worked, it worked. But when it didn’t work, which was often the case when integrating different enterprise systems, then well… lord have mercy on me.

Sometimes I still use XSD to define a schema for clients, because in some areas there’s still better tooling for XML. And it gives me the safety of getting valid input data, if the XML couldn’t be validated.

And in the enterprise world, XML is far from being dead anyways.

[fsckboy]

>What I miss the most about the XML ecosystem is the tooling.

yes, me too! when using XML it rendered all the flexability and power of the unix tools pretty useless, and I missed them.