I feel like the best takeaway here is that XML is a document format, and JSON is for programmatic interchange, e.g. APIs. That's at least how I operate, and I u

I feel like the best takeaway here is that XML is a document format, and JSON is for programmatic interchange, e.g. APIs. That's at least how I operate, and I use both XML and JSON for various things. My APIs are all JSON, but if I'm serialising some data to disk, or for export etc, it's usually XML.