>I think people make to much out of XML. It is what it is. Basically a file format for data. Yes, it is nice that it is somewhat self documenting. But, it's just a fancy text file.

A very extensible, cross platform data format yes.

>One of my biggest pet peeves is when you read in a Mag or Article about someone programming in XML. XML is not a language or IDE or compiler, you can't program in it!

Sure you can. WML (WAP's markup language), XHTML, XSL and many or ways to program user interfaces and use 100% XML.