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I am going to import some data, and I have the data available in either a JSON feed or a XML feed. I can’t decide if I should use the XML or the JSON feed.
What are the pros and cons of choosing either feed, and what is your prefered choice?
XML mean more bytes on the wire: closing tags, by definition, mean XML will be larger than JSON for the same data.
XML tags are human readable meta-data for the data you send. If humans aren’t reading it, what does it matter?
XML has XSD schemas for validation.
XML parsers are standard and ubiquitous.
I see both. JSON is starting to be used more and more.
Pick one. It probably doesn’t matter much. I’d prefer JSON these days.