JSON, XML and YAML have their place in many existing environments like Drupal and Symfony. It is a requirement for using those platforms. For new applications, the choice is yours.

You’ll get an overview of the technology, find out how it compares to similar standards like XML, YAML, and CSV, and see examples of JSON in a variety of programs and use cases.

XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML ...

XML is more difficult to manage than JSON format. Converting XML into a JavaScript object takes up to tens or hundreds more lines of code compared to JSON, and it requires an XML parser. XML documents ...

XML supports metadata, JSON is just attributes, so there is a challenge to represent metadata in JSON. Also, there is no support for namespaces in JSON. Finally, binary coded files, ...

I'm will continue to demand well formed XML from the services I consume, and all of the clients that consume the content I produce better be happy with the flaky JSON strings that I deliver to them. I ...