Re:Stop Comparing JSON and XML
by avmich on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @12:42AM
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Doesn't sound very convincing. What's the significant difference between those technologies? Both JSON and XML represent trees, they both allow to validate structure, specify a location on the tree. Why JSON is "data format", and XML "language" - and what is the difference between these two concepts?
I feel a bit sorry for XML. A modern evolution of SGML, which pursued ideas of reliable data storage for decades, XML was an attempt to be user-friendly, to be easy to deal with manually. It was after all rather similar to HTML, on appearance.
However, XML is too verbose for automated processing, and too inconvenient for manual work today when there is JSON - or other more "humane" formats. So it seems it's on the way out.
I feel a bit sorry for XML. A modern evolution of SGML, which pursued ideas of reliable data storage for decades, XML was an attempt to be user-friendly, to be easy to deal with manually. It was after all rather similar to HTML, on appearance.
However, XML is too verbose for automated processing, and too inconvenient for manual work today when there is JSON - or other more "humane" formats. So it seems it's on the way out.