Clowns In My Coffee

UVic’s Electronic Textual Cultures Lab encodes a song by some music guy in the Text Encoding Initiative XML format. There is, of course, a video.
What I want to know is, does this mean XML is cool or hopelessly passé?  Discuss.

On a visit to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo the other day, I came across a couple of references to artificial insemination; pandas are not exactly fecund creatures. It occurred to me that there must therefore be somebody whose job it is to … uhh … collect the male’s contribution to that process. [...]