Yeah I had SVG in mind when I wrote that post but I thought of different use cases. Of course every document format can also be called a serialization format.

Yeah I had SVG in mind when I wrote that post but I thought of different use cases. Of course every document format can also be called a serialization format. I enjoy JSX as well (and even SOAP!). That's why I weakened the quoted sentence in my comment. When I hear "JSON vs XML" I can't help but mainly think of data payloads in web applications, especially non-static client/server communication. I wouldn't want JSON instead of SVG either :)