Re:Son: A minimal subset of JSON for machine-to-machine comm...
by falcolas on Sunday December 10, 2017 @09:44AM
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> there's little reason to use XML except for legacy or markup purposes.
There's also the ability to easily and explicitly encode data that doesn't fit to JSON's limited types. A non-exhaustive example includes: sets, hash tables that don't use string keys, tuples, imaginary numbers, fractional numbers, and precision decimal numbers.
There's also the fact that XML explicitly supports streaming interpolation of documents, something which can speed up interactivity quite dramatically.
There's also the ability to easily and explicitly encode data that doesn't fit to JSON's limited types. A non-exhaustive example includes: sets, hash tables that don't use string keys, tuples, imaginary numbers, fractional numbers, and precision decimal numbers.
There's also the fact that XML explicitly supports streaming interpolation of documents, something which can speed up interactivity quite dramatically.