Comment by dwaite
It is a properly named language. Just a staggering majority of XML use is for a purpose it was not originally designed for. It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations.
> It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations.
Well, at least hypertext. I've seen the disaster that is MathML.