XML is ‘harder to read’ .. really. XML is a generalised syntax and easily as expressive as YAML to create a DSL, or use one of the many industry defined schema.
XML is verbose ... that rather depends on whether you use element normal form or the more compact attribute syntax. Regardless, verbosity can be viewed as an orthogonal concern to readability, so I’m not really sure whether you are stating it as an advantage or disadvantage (how you view that depends on your use case imho)
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XML is ‘harder to read’ .. really. XML is a generalised syntax and easily as expressive as YAML to create a DSL, or use one of the many industry defined schema.
XML is verbose ... that rather depends on whether you use element normal form or the more compact attribute syntax. Regardless, verbosity can be viewed as an orthogonal concern to readability, so I’m not really sure whether you are stating it as an advantage or disadvantage (how you view that depends on your use case imho)