alt Hacker NewsXML is used a lot in standards and publishing industries -- JATS, EPUB, ODF, DOCX/XLSX/..., DocBook, etc. are all XML based/use XML.
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michaelbarton • yesterday at 9:42 PM
Without being facetious, isn’t HTML a dialect of XML and very widely used?
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graemep • yesterday at 10:09 PM
Also in finance. XBRL and FIXML although I do not know how widely used the latter is.
Yes, there's a handful of niches. Still 1/1000th the momentum it had, or adoption it was expected to get, and nobody under 40 even considers it for new stuff.