An implementation of a dialog box system using XML.
You were correct, it definitely was not wasted time! I've built off your system and used your notes to expand it into a system allowing for multiple discussions to be parsed using the dialogue system. I'm pretty new to programming in general, here's what I've managed to come up with so far!
drive.google.com/open
I'm very appreciative of you for the skeleton and advice on how to push this project further, I think it's going to be able to do (with some very minor modifications) what I'm looking for in my game.