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XML

What it is good for...

What is should not be used for...

Promoting applications with terms like ‘xml driven’ or ‘xml powered’.
As a syntax for a programming language. Seriously, project like Ant makes simply task overwhelmingly complex.

Ant succeeds in making even small build scripts a highly complex

Consider a simple copy operation like:

<copy todir="../dest/dir">
  <fileset dir="src_dir">
    <include name="**/*.java"/>
  </fileset>
</copy>

Which could instead be written like

copy src_dir/*.java ../dest/dir