The difference between XML and JSON is that XML is a meta-language/markup language and JSON is a lightweight data-interchange. That is, XML syntax is designed specifically to have no inherent semantics. Particular element names don't mean anything until a particular processing application processes them in a particular way.

JSON is faster- Parsing XML software is slow and cumbersome. Many of these DOM manipulation libraries can lead to your applications using large amounts of memory due to the verbosity and cost of parsing large XML files. JSON data model’s structure matches the data: JSON’s data structure is a map whereas XML is a tree.

Feb 1, 2011 · I found this article at digital bazaar really interesting. Quoting their quotations from Norm: About JSON pros: If all you want to pass around are atomic values or lists or hashes of atomic values, JSON has many of the advantages of XML: it’s straightforwardly usable over the Internet, supports a wide variety of applications, it’s easy to write programs to process JSON, …

Mar 1, 2013 · JSON is the best way to design any mobile application development, because parsing JSON is very light weight operation compare to XML. while XML parsing is always leads to complex memory problem. and JSON can be easily build/parse with GSON library which is again very light weight.

Dec 8, 2015 · JSON doesn't map directly to XML, which is definitely more complex - but not just about "boilerplate", it's also more flexible and better suited for other things (such as UI). You could represent the same thing with <myXmlFormat key="value" otherKey="3.14159..." /> (except for the array). Both JSON and XML have their uses. –

Apr 12, 2019 · XML - Shares many of JSON's benefits - cross-language, lightweight, etc. Adobe Flex for example handles XML very well, even better than JSON. It's definitely an appropriate substitute for JSON. I personally prefer JSON for its JS like syntax, but XML is also good. Java Serialization - Should be considered only for Java-to-Java communication.

Dec 25, 2012 · XML also allows a narrative style where text is alternated with tags inclusions like <value>This is a <attention>narrative style</attention>. Tags could appear <exclamation /> in the middle of text</value>. This is the unique feature of XML when compared with JSON and …

Nov 28, 2008 · XML was once sold as a data inter-change format, but consider the two most common use cases: Asynchronous client-server communication (AJAX) - JSON has pretty much replaced XML entirely (The X should really be a J), and web services: JSON has made XML a redundant alternative.

XML: 80 chars. JSON: 92 chars. XML is the 13% slimmer winner, who would have thought for all the bogus claims? [Example taken from Cheeso above. Note that carriage return types change the size but equally for both. Without any returns in either, the ratio is …

Dec 10, 2017 · XML Serialization Single: 2.3764ms JSON Serialization Single: 2.1432ms XML Serialization 1000: 13.7754ms JSON Serialization 1000: 13.747ms XML Serialization 10000: 100ms JSON Serialization 10000: 134ms JSON consistently came out just a tiny bit faster after 1 iteration. After 1000 iterations there really was no difference.