nostr:npub1a73wyr3s8ffagwsnlfd548d0nsaqcwdnn6550akehaxglw3kzc8qce7y6q there are many cases of xml still around, goes way beyond podcasting.
Consider: fast-xml-parser npm package has 13.6 million weekly downloads, xml2js has 18.4 million. Compare to the most popular JS library React's 20.5 million downloads, and you can see XML is still in heavy use across web dev, far more than just us potcasters