Hi, It’s not that XML is from the past. If you want strict validation of the data, XML is a good format for doing just that.
Regards > On 21 Jul 2026, at 05:05, David Wetzel via Discussion list for the GNUstep > programming environment <[email protected]> wrote: > > I feel like XML is a format from the past. Why not use a JSON based one? > > Dave > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jul 20, 2026, at 14:01, [email protected] via Developers >> list for GNUstep, the GNU groupware evironment <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi ’Steppers! >> >> >> For the sake of diffability in GIT it would be great to have some non-binary >> but text based .gorm serialization format. >> >> I know that .xibs exist in that role for .nibs, so why not do exactly the >> same with .xorms for .gorms? >> >> Greg said once that he has .xib reading ready but .xib writing would be much >> more difficult because we had to reverse engineer how to write those. >> >> I now propose that we reuse the same basic format of xibs (XML with certain >> keys) to write .xorms instead of .gorms with the only difference that here >> GNUstep defines what belongs how into a .xorm. >> >> >> What do you think? >> >> >> kind regards, >> >> Lars >> >> P.S.: I have sent this proposal to discuss as well as to dev, since I didn’t >> know which list would be more appropriate. >> >> >
