[Lazarus] Why was XML format chosen for storing settings in Lazarus IDE?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 18/06/2010, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
>
> The simple reason is that .ini is one level only, and XML has an infinite
> nesting depth.

Could you give a small code example of how you read/write values in a
nested hierarchy, or do you use some custom written component
(something like TRegFile, TINIFile)?

I personally don't like referencing a value via something like...

  GetXMLNode('\CompilerOptions\SomeTab\SomeValue').Text

If so, INI files could be used in exactly the same way (as my previous
post about Windows regedit showed).

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Regards,
  - Graeme -


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