JSON, XML and YAML have their place in many existing environments like Drupal and Symfony. It is a requirement for using those platforms. For new applications, the choice is yours.

While I didn’t have room for it in the second edition, a future edition of Java XML and JSON may cover YAML.. XML vs JSON? Not so fast . . . XML and JSON are often compared, but they actually ...

XML is more difficult to manage than JSON format. Converting XML into a JavaScript object takes up to tens or hundreds more lines of code compared to JSON, and it requires an XML parser. XML documents ...