On 19 December 2023 at 06:34:55, Doug Ewell via Unicode 
([email protected]) wrote:

> This is a shame. I don’t know how widely the XML files were adopted, but I 
> certainly found  
> them easier to process than the traditional Unicode data files.

For me this is only half the story. As I wrote in my feedback on the PRI, UAX42 
is the only place where you can easily find out the type of a property and 
where their evolution from version to version is carefuly chronicled. This is a 
golden ressource if you maintain APIs that expose or make use of these 
properties.

Regarding how much it is used, it’s unclear but if you search for the various 
compressed and uncompressed file names on code hosting platforms, it’s far from 
anecdotic.

Best,

Daniel



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