Technical Comparison

JSON vs XML: Architecture & Performance Comparison

XML dominated 2000s web services (SOAP), while JSON became the de facto standard for modern REST & GraphQL APIs due to lower overhead and native JavaScript object representation.

1. Core Differences

Criteria	JSON	XML
Data Model	Key-value pairs, arrays, primitives	Tree nodes with attributes and tags
Payload Size	Compact (no closing tags)	Verbose (closing tags required)
Native JS Parsing	JSON.parse() (Built-in engine)	DOMParser() (Requires DOM tree traversal)
Schema Standard	JSON Schema	XSD / DTD

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