I dont see really the benefit from using XML at all.
Usually I find that people who say that haven't used XML for anything significant.
It is just another file format and other well defined TLV fileformats are just as extensible. The only aplications ever reading pcap files are always going to do that through libpcap anyway so XML or a better suited binary fileformat would be invisible to the application anyway.
As long as pcap files are a fixed binary format, then yes, the only applications reading them are going to do so through libpcap, pretty much by definition: i.e. your statement is a tautology.
If you store in XML, then many applications could read pcap files, because they wouldn't /have/ to use libpcap.
I think XML is the 21st centurys response to C++.
I have no idea what you mean by that...
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