XML is ok for complex docs where you have a detailed structure and relationships. JSON is good for simple objects. YAML is good for being something to switch to for the illusion of progress.
XML is also tricky to parse because people forget it is for documents too. It’s basically like HTML. Mixed content elements are allowed. <foo>hey <bar>there</bar> friend</foo> is valid XML. So iterating over elements is trickier than JSON (which is just key value pairs and arrays).
XML is ok for complex docs where you have a detailed structure and relationships. JSON is good for simple objects. YAML is good for being something to switch to for the illusion of progress.
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I still want someone to explain to me why XML even needs namespaces (which cause about 95% of all issues regarding XML).
There is a way to separate different XML structures, it’s called files.
There are parsing libraries, maybe not as many or as open, but they exist.
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XML is also tricky to parse because people forget it is for documents too. It’s basically like HTML. Mixed content elements are allowed.
<foo>hey <bar>there</bar> friend</foo>is valid XML. So iterating over elements is trickier than JSON (which is just key value pairs and arrays).