Depends on the task, JSON won because it was so simple whilst XML is waaay to complex. Maybe an alternative to JSON with just a tad more complexity for sanity could have won 20 years ago, but alas it never happened.
JSON is less complex because it only solves some of the problems that XML solves. That doesn't make it better or worse, but adding schema support or attempting to make REST APIs with JSON because complex, and IMO fragile, quickly.
Fortunately! It was cool to do the easy things, but then you had monstruous path expressions, and all sort of programmatical drama.. Pfff...
did you know that XSLT was shown to be Turing complete ? https://staff.emu.edu.tr/zekibayram/Documents/papers/XSLT_Tu...
On the other side, I find XML/XSD still much better than JSON. JSON is way too simple...
Depends on the task, JSON won because it was so simple whilst XML is waaay to complex. Maybe an alternative to JSON with just a tad more complexity for sanity could have won 20 years ago, but alas it never happened.
JSON is less complex because it only solves some of the problems that XML solves. That doesn't make it better or worse, but adding schema support or attempting to make REST APIs with JSON because complex, and IMO fragile, quickly.
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