>>> Now, grasshopper, do you understand why every configuration file
>>> everywhere in any Java-based system is based on XML or property files?
>>
>> Oh, well, that's almost an /advantage/. Why invent yet another file
>> format
>> when you can use an existing well-supported one?
>
> Because XML sucks for that purpose, because it was never designed for
> that purpose.

So what would you use?

Personally, I'm somewhat partial to JSON. Unfortunately, the rest of the 
world seems to like the horrifyingly awful YAML...

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