Comment by ajnin

I way prefer XML over something like YAML. I can't believe people criticize XML for being too complex and then rave about YAML. YAML is a monstrosity, the spec is something like 700 pages, and is a frequent source of bugs. To me at least indentation-based hierarchy is also hard to read, XML is verbose but at least you know where you are. JSON would be fine, but some values are not representable, and as the article says, you can't embed any comments, and also the order of input is not preserved. I don't think that is really appropriate for manually-edited files. The quest for the perfect data and configuration language is still on.