> One guy’s PhD dissertation made us switch from XML to JSON The PhD dissertation was a rallying cry, something you could point the PhB to as a "best practice"

> One guy’s PhD dissertation made us switch from XML to JSON The PhD dissertation was a rallying cry, something you could point the PhB to as a "best practice". Wanting to switch from XML to JSON had nothing to do with that dissertation, and most of the stuff in there does more harm than good.