| JSON: JavaScript Object Notation | XML: eXtensible Markup Language | |
| data-oriented | document-oriented | |
| Types | Number, Array, Boolean, String, Object and Null | All string |
| Data | JSON Objects are typed | XML data is typeless |
| Simplicity of read/ write | √ shorter & faster, no end tag | |
| Easy to learn | √ | |
| Capability to display | No | Yes,
capable to display data because it is a markup language |
| Support array | √ | |
| secured | √more | |
| Human readable | √more | |
| Datatype support | only text and number | text, number, images, charts, graphs etc.
Also, XML offers options for transferring the format/structure of the data with actual data |
| Parsed by | a standard JavaScript function into ready-to-use JavaScript object | An XML parser |
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