xml suitable for ide features?

Hi,

Im writing a pascal ide in .net (college project). It will have features like syntax highlighting, inserting code templates etc...

I just wish to get peoples thoughts on whether xml would be suitable for storing the syntax to be highlighted i.e. lists of keywords aswell as code templates:

if condition then
begin

endif

This is an idea to using a custom alternative file format for which i would have to write the parser etc..

Thanks

Chris

Sure. SharpDevelop(a C# editor) uses XML for that.

www.icsharpcode.net

No reason you cant.

Its open source too, so if you know C# and want to pick throguh the source to find what they did, go for it.