Why? JSON hasn’t given us anything XML hasn’t, except maybe a bit of terseness.

I do agree SOAP is a bit over engineered, though, but that’s not the fault of XML.

As a pentester, if I see XML in HTTP I start crying.

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XML is much more annoying to read/write by hand

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