So it seems that we prefer XML which is easy to read. I have seen those files way often. Like: <xml><item><key>1</key><value>Something</value></item><item....><

So it seems that we prefer XML which is easy to read. I have seen those files way often. Like: <xml><item><key>1</key><value>Something</value></item><item....></xml> Then you have to combine what ever keys and values are in item tags. I found out these to be very annoying files to handle. Especially when key is X3 and value is 83d, you have to look for every combination from some kind of mapping, because non of those tells you absolutely nothing directly. At least its easy to create files that full fill the schema, because the complexity is pushed out of XML level. Often these files are created by "upgrading" CSV to XML. Let's just call column key # and then put what ever is in that column to the value tag. Yes attributes could be used, but often aren't. Then you have to know that if key X contains value Y then you also need to look for key Z and hopefully it does contain value N or what ever.