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The lost art of XML — mmagueta
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Eh, I don't think it's the be-all and end-all of describing user interfaces, but it deals well with the deep nesting that UIs generally have, and the attributes allow throwing in metadata for certain elements, which is also something you frequently need in UIs.
At the very least, JSON, YAML, INI and TOML would be a lot worse.
Well, from my experience working with android xml guis is soul crushing. While QML is much more pleasant, and it is kinda like json, but not quite.
Yeah, fair enough. I was thinking in terms of the more general-purpose text formats. I have heard good things about QML, too...