gossi/docspec — Issue #6: Discussion: JSON vs. XML
Author: mvriel
Created: 2012-01-03 08:03:09+00:00
State: open

I understand the negative bias that XML has in many cases due to verbosity but I need to ask what arguments were used to consider JSON.

AFAIK are there no cross-language libraries that allow easy transformation from JSON data to another format; whereas in XML you can use XPath to get pieces of what you want or use XSL to convert an entire document (or parts of it) to another format such as HTML.

Since the structure files can become rather large it would sound inconvenient to load the JSON into a hashmap and then process it.