[wps]

I really appreciate your commentary here! I understand that SQLite would not automatically solve the politics issue. As ctoth mentioned, it would serve as a "flag day" for the KeePass community to hopefully cover everyone's bases in a formal manner. Schema versioning and evolution is way more up SQLite's alley. An SQLite schema has referential integrity which an XML schema lacks, making it harder to misuse and contort. It is also far simpler to modify a query in the event passkey storage need to be changed than it is to modify the parser.

The lower barrier to entry probably also reduces the number of catastrophic parsing mistakes a developer can make. This is a net positive gain for the wider ecosystem of external tools which do not have to re-implement the whole parser. Every language has a great SQLite library, the same cannot be said of KDBX.