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Comment by organsnyder | Hacker News Reader

Why not just

<parameter name="ApplicationName" value="WhizBang"/> ?

That's the age-old question, isn't it?

Your option is better, but XML is very (maybe too) flexible and is bound to be made a mess of.

I've seen some pretty messed up schemas in JSON and YAML, too.

That's still worse than <ApplicationName>WhizBang</ApplicationName>. Or

    ApplicationName=WhizBang