not really, JSON makes it easy to exchange standard objects and arrays between languages, in PHP it's as simple as: $json = json_encode($object); $object =

not really, JSON makes it easy to exchange standard objects and arrays between languages, in PHP it's as simple as: $json = json_encode($object); $object = json_decode($json); I'm sure it's equally easy in other languages, XML is not good in this use case. There's no standard way to do it.