Roman Shaposhnik's

But people try to apply XML to everything they see nevertheless. Sometimes, however, the results are not just sad, but downright spooky:

Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:11:57 +0200
From: Lluis Batlle 
Subject: Re: [9fans] XML
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>

Lately I've been told at work to use a library in C. Most calls have
the signature

  ErrorType function(const char *xml);

I have to pass to them xmls of more than two levels deep, attributes,
and around ten elements.

When I asked why such interface to a library, claiming that it was
uncomfortable to me, the lib developer told me that in fact
xml-parameter-passing was one of the techniques he liked most, and
helped him solve a lot of problems easily.