Originally Posted by Phanx
Anyway, you'll probably find that many "how to write addons" resources for beginners talk about XML -- the only thing you will ever need to use XML for is to create inheritable templates for user with secure headers, which is a very advanced topic that has very little application in addons, so you'll almost certainly never need to worry about it. I'd suggest skipping over any XML tutorials, as it's simpler to just create your frames in Lua.
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Ya, XML used to be a thing back in the day before they had
CreateFrame() and made Lua files loadable in the TOC. Back then, UI elements had to be defined in XML and Lua files had to be loaded using the
<Script> tag.