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As thwarted points out, the entourage of XThings that follow XML around only exist to prop up the inherently awkward XML itself, whereas JSON, being more or les
by extension 17y ago
As thwarted points out, the entourage of XThings that follow XML around only exist to prop up the inherently awkward XML itself, whereas JSON, being more or less a straightforward serialization format for the data structures we all know and love, has no need for these things. To refine your analogy, I would say XML is to JSON as an M1 Abrams is to a sensible foreign policy of non-interference.