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 This list semi-regularly gets worked up over why more people don't use XML for things we think they should use if for (e.g. why JSON not XML)? This inevitably leads to a theme blaming development teams for not thinking hard or long enough to make the "right" choice (i.e. XML). But development teams aren't stupid: they think hard and pick the tools they believe will make them and their business successful. And from that (i.e. the only one that counts) perspective JSON has been a great choice. To know why XML isn't picked, someone needs to talk with teams who made/make these decisions, and find out why XML (and associated tools) wasn't (and won't be) picked. An XML list is not the best forum for obtaining that answer ;-} Ian On 26-Jun-18 10:53 AM, Nicholas Sushkin wrote: On Monday, June 25, 2018 11:35:35 AM EDT Michael Kay wrote:That fallacy is about to be exposed. JSON is "simpler" to use because up till now it has been used for simpler things.JSON *is* simpler to use for simple things, no doubt about it. Mainly because it is a much closer fit to the data models of conventional programming languages.In JSON, each value is either a list of values or a set of key/value pairs. When the data model fits JSON, it's easy to use. It becomes hairy when values are html, xml, or json, because of escaping of double quotes. Most programming languages have matching data structures, so it's easy to use JSON to exchange them via an API. Also, JSON is fairly human readable, unless there is a lot of escaping. On the other hand, when your data are documents or when you don't mind writing a more complex (de)serialization code for your data structures to XML, XML provides better (de)serialization fidelity, more human readable than JSON, especially when values have few escaped angular brackets. Once you get over the hump of getting your data into XML, all the tooling that you can use for validation and transformation. That's the advantage of XML. -- Ian Graham // <http://www.iangraham.org> 
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