>1. OP article has nothing to do with JavaScript. JSON is a format directly derived from JavaScript. The affinity for using JSON for things that have nothing t

>1. OP article has nothing to do with JavaScript. JSON is a format directly derived from JavaScript. The affinity for using JSON for things that have nothing to do with object serialization or simple data structures is characteristic of JS mentality. >2. It's not like the JS community is anti-XML, most JS libs/frameworks still use HTML/XML markup for rendering. Of course JS community is anti-XML. They don't use XML even when it makes sense to do so. And they use HTML only as a rendering layer, completely ignoring its other use (e.g. semantic document format).