On 12/18/2015 10:02 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > Yep. There IS NO REASON for *any* logfile (or configuration file, for that > matter) to be XML. Logs - if your machine is borked, cat or more may work, > when no other way to view it does. Configuration... XML is for GUI. If the > GUI's already hiding stuff, why not have it write out to *text* files? XML for configuration is very handy when the configuration file may be modified by software, as you can read it into a DOM tree and validate before writing back to file. It also allows you to do things like use an XSLT for displaying the configuration is a user friendly way. Not saying it is always the best way to do things, but it certainly has its uses. sitemap.xml is an excellent example of a configuration file that probably should be XML for what it does and how it is used. Logs, well, I don't have a pro XML argument for those.