Object is the root object of all prototypes in JavaScript. Aside from providing the foundation for the JavaScript object model, Object imparts important methods such as toString() and assign().

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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 are also more difficult to read when compared to ...