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

[Martin]

On 18/06/2010 12:21, Alexander Klenin wrote:
>> Benefits of LFM vs. XML:
>> 3) can be read/written directly to the object via RTTI, thus
>> drastically simplifying read/write code
>> (I estimate a few thousands lines of code might be eliminated from Lazarus).
>>
>>      

There is code that read XML via RTTI directly to the object.