Programming against XML using the DOM API today is a bitch. The accidental complexity of working with the DOM is so high that many programmers are giving up on using XML altogether, cursing the hype that XML makes dealing with data simple, which no one who has actually written DOM code could claim. The W3C DOM was not designed with ease of programming in mind, but rather evolved as a design by committee from the existing DHTML object model originally created by Netscape.
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