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XML launch files are still supported in ROS2 (ros2#947)
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* XML launch files are still supported in ROS2

Should this also mention YAML? I saw in the source code that there is also a YAML frontend.

* Shorten long sentence

* Add "and YAML"
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nnmm authored Dec 15, 2020
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Launch files
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While launch files in ROS 1 are specified using `.xml <https://wiki.ros.org/roslaunch/XML>`__ files ROS 2 uses Python scripts to enable more flexibility (see `launch package <https://github.com/ros2/launch/tree/master/launch>`__).
While launch files in ROS 1 are always specified using `.xml <https://wiki.ros.org/roslaunch/XML>`__ files, ROS 2 supports Python scripts to enable more flexibility (see `launch package <https://github.com/ros2/launch/tree/master/launch>`__) as well as XML and YAML files.
See `separate tutorial <https://index.ros.org/doc/ros2/Tutorials/Launch-files-migration-guide/>`__ on migrating launch files from ROS 1 to ROS 2.

Example: Converting an existing ROS 1 package to use ROS 2
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