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Because it's ugly and verbose


It really depends on what you are using it for. The hierarchical semantics of XML makes hierarchal data so much easier to read, write, and query than anything you are likely to come up with in json. I’d go as far to argue that the whole reason we don’t have a modern equivalent of Flash is because composability is busted because of the inadequate hierarchical semantics of json.




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