Has JSON pretty much replaced XML for string processing for the web, or are there use cases where XML is still necessary?
25th February 2012
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It’s replaced XML as the default format for most APIs. XML is still necessary for Atom/RSS feeds and other existing standards built on top of XML. It’s also a better choice than JSON for markup-style data—stuff like XHTML where tags are applied to sequences of characters within larger chunks of text.
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