Re: Proposal: create XML based .gorm format: .xorm

Using -[NSDictionary descriptionWithLocale:indent:] I think we can=20
already output a gorm file as a text property list with no indentation=20
(and it sorts dictionary content by key).

I suspect that format would be highly suitable for diff:

Using no indent means that adding enclosing containers doesn't change=20
the lines representing the content of those containers.

Having dictionaries sorted by key means that fields are present in a=20
consistent order.

On 21/07/2026 16:41, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> David Wetzel via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming=20
> environment wrote:
>> I feel like XML is a format from the past. Why not use a JSON based one=
?
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> I would use neither, I would just use plists, our native format.
> Actually, probably both plist as XML-encoded plists would work.
>
> JSON is just a bad plist :) and has absolutely no type encoding.
>
> Riccardo
>