AFAIK the PSGML mode is also the favourite one to use for XML editing.
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there are also more and more RDF datasets (http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/) published, so at least some people seem to think it is a good format.
Aside from that I think, although RDF might not be the 'holy grail', it is in fact quite usable for a lot of problem domains and saying that it needs to be discarded is a bit harsh :)