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> It was a revolt against the complexity of XML, but You're confusing things. JSON is in fact much less complex than XML. Any CS freshman can write a complet
by geezerjay 9y ago
> It was a revolt against the complexity of XML, but
You're confusing things. JSON is in fact much less complex than XML. Any CS freshman can write a complete JSON parser in a couple of days, which is entirely inconceivable with XML. What people do with JSON documents is an entirely different problem.
- nikolay 9y agoNo, you're confused and lack the ability to read between the lines. I'm talking about the ecosystem as a whole. XSL, XML Schema Definition, XPath, XQuery, and not XML, but complementary specifications and so are EJSON, JSON Pointer, JSON Path, JMESPath, jq query language, and a growing number of other members of the JSON ecosystem. So, yeah, JSON alone is simple, because it's limited, but not orders of magnitude simpler than XML - most noobs know XHTML/HTML, and their number is orders of magnitude larger than those who know what JSON is.