XML was RE: RE: A portable preferences library

Brian Hook <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.general
Message-ID <20031215231417.156158@centrino>
This list server is getting more and more flakey...anyway, this is a 
repost since my prior one evidently went into the great void..

> Behalf Of Jeff Laing
> I'm surprised that no-one has said "use XML format please" - its
> not that painful, given that you'll have a fairly limited schema
> to implement.

So here's a question -- I know that whenever a discussion about text 
file formats comes up there is often a "use XML" grenade tossed into 
it.  Now, I can think of a lot of reasons NOT to use XML (i.e. it's 
overkill, for one), but I'm curious what real, tangible reasons for 
using XML exist, as opposed to a simple application specific structure 
(like INI files).

Brian





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