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In his YouTube interview, Michael Kay said: XML is very widely used in all kinds of document publishing. It’s used for things like patents, academic publishing, scientific publishing, legal publishing. All the UK legislation is published in XML. The reason these disciplines chose
XML is because their documents have got to last for 50 years, so they chose a format that’s capable of surviving for that long. They are not going to change to something else quickly, so XML is definitely here to stay in those sorts of fields. What’s going
to change is that people who need to do something quick and cheap and dirty are going to use the quickest, most effective solution available to them, and very often that’s JSON, particularly if you’re working in a web browser.
So it’s a distinction between whether you are doing something for the long term or whether you’re doing something cheap and cheerful that’s only of local significance. |