Both the Typescript and Babel compilers have excellent support for embedding XML in Javascript. This is called JSX and was motivated by the popularity of the React UI library for rendering HTML.

ok, so I'm working on building some AJAX stuff into my forms. I've got a "find" button that searches on an inputted email address and fills in text fields and dropdowns based on the returned XML ...

For those of us who have spent entire careers working with structured data, it comes as something of a surprise to be reminded that XML is now 25 years old. You probably missed the XML standard on … ...