I came across the program Eqonomize, which advertises itself as personal accounting software. As it stores its data in XML format, would that be considered plain text or something else? Just curious about what would be considered plain text. I don't know any experience using the software. Thank you.
Most people would say it's "somewhat" - not as plain as our most human-readable plain text formats, but plainer than a sqlite database for example. GnuCash is another app which uses it (actually gives a choice of these).
Nice link. So many accounting apps! This one looks like a Windows and Linux-friendly GnuCash competitor.
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Well in fact XML is plain text not a binary language. However, I would say it is language focused to exchange data between machines. Because it is quite verbose and easy to parse by programs. More lightweight plain text languages such as Yaml or even JSON are more human readable and editable, and today are more used than XML in modern programs.
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Yeah, I'd say XML is plain text. It's just plain text with context text to give the content meaning. …But it's still just plain text