Other things I don't get (WAS: Re: A Joeish Erlang distribution (long))

[Per Bergqvist]

Regarding parlay they have now started to publish xml/soap interfaces.
xml/soap for traffical interfaces is even more bizarro.               
                                                                      
I asked a colleague the other day if he could explain one good thing  
with xml and the funny thing is that he was totally confused about    
this too.                                                             
                                                                      
If I think xml as such is totally overrated, I believe that soap is   
pure stupidity.  Since this xml hysteria has been bugging for quite   
some time now it would be interesting to hear others opinions.        
                                                                      
Am I way off here ???                                                 
(I'm sorry if this all sounds like I have pms, but I truly believe    
that traffical interfaces should have simple and efficient codings.)  
                                                                      
/Per