In hindsight, is basing XAML on XML a mistake or a good approach?
- by romkyns
XAML is essentially a subset of XML. One of the main benefits of basing XAML on XML is said to be that it can be parsed with existing tools. And it can, to a large degree, although the (syntactically non-trivial) attribute values will stay in text form and require further parsing.
There are two major alternatives to describing a GUI in an…