It seems pretty ridiculous, but think about it for a moment. There are myriad ways of serializing XML into JSON and viva-versa. Having a published agreed upon s

It seems pretty ridiculous, but think about it for a moment. There are myriad ways of serializing XML into JSON and viva-versa. Having a published agreed upon standard could help for interoperability if you have some application that needs to interface with an application that uses the other format.