differences between an XML and JSON API?

Hi

Try this: http://www.json.org/xml.html

If you speak of the java framework, the xml is included in JavaSE. Json is a separate add-on jar download. Json gives you the option of processing in-place, line-for-line or loading the whole document into memory and then begin marshaling. I seem to recall <xml> api as redundant document.getChildren() and then getChild(), getChild(), getChild(), in other words more redundant. I recall the Java API <xml> parser as too specific with a vast choice of using the right class for the job.

The choice would be if you wish to write code that already has the libraries included or elect to include/link JSON and/or Xerxes thus requiring you to learn the call-outs for the optional add-ons.

As I inderstand it, for API type work or coding, xml is too vrbose wheras JSON is not, it is much less code and performs faster.