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Douglas Crockford presents a debate existing around XML and JSON, and the negative effect of the Intellectual Property laws on open source software. [...]

James Clark, technical lead for the World Wide Web Consortium’s XML activity, published a blog post today about the perceived competition between JSON and XML. Twitter and Foursquare both recently dropped support for XML, opting to use JSON exclusively. Clark doesn’t see XML going away, but sees it less and less as a Web technology. “I think the Web community has spoken,” Clark concludes. “And it’s clear that what it wants is HTML5, JavaScript and JSON.” Clark cites a few particular reasons why JSON is winning the hearts and minds of web developers.

Read more here: http://blog.jclark.com/2010/11/xml-vs-web_24.html