phew MiniMax. I think you got it 😀 @Cobra & jal: The reason for XMLs omnipresence are the nearly unlimited possibilities it provides. Of course there is nothing you cannot do in other ways but these suffer from inoperability and maintainability.

I think the times when everyone invented its own (text) file format are over and one should consider the options XML offers. I hope to convince you that basing dosbox's config-file on XML would be a good option. Here are the pros: - parser code is off-loaded to some XML parsing package (eg Xerces-C) …