JSON is text, but most code that works with JSON sticks with the "syntax tree" (i.e. some native object representation) and only handles decoding/encoding the a

JSON is text, but most code that works with JSON sticks with the "syntax tree" (i.e. some native object representation) and only handles decoding/encoding the actual JSON format at communication boundaries. The problem with HTML is that its syntax trees are relatively unpleasant to use.