Don't be ridiculous - XML on the web is being used for many many thing extremelely well..
When it comes down to it, 99.9999% of people and applications couldn't care less about the character encoding - XML is uses as a "universal" file format, and for what people are using it for, it works perfectly. The number of applications for it that actually do require true multi-language/multi-encoding capability are both insignificant and irrelevant. In fact, if XML only supported UTF-8 it would lose zero value.
NO-ONE CARES.
(well, ok, you do - but you assertion that XML has failed is just silly) |