> To me, one of the virtues of XML is that, if the server changes the XML response, you can capture it, and a human can eyeball parse it and figure out what we

> To me, one of the virtues of XML is that, if the server changes the XML response, you can capture it, and a human can eyeball parse it and figure out what went wrong, and figure out how to change the code on the receiving end to compensate. It's hard to automate, sure, but it's far better than having the server hand you some updated binary format. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems to me you can do the same thing with JSON.