I always saw it as "JSON was the new XML". And JSON Schema was the new XSD. And then they went ahead and also re-invented SOAP using "Swagger" / OpenAPI. Lucki

I always saw it as "JSON was the new XML". And JSON Schema was the new XSD. And then they went ahead and also re-invented SOAP using "Swagger" / OpenAPI. Luckily, JSON/YAML is mostly interchangeable these days as it's just a nested hierarchy of a few basic types. Heck, I mostly treat XML the same way as well.