JSON has emerged as one of the most popular data interchange methods. It has several advantages over the XML that has to help it to replace XML as a most popular data transfer format.
JSON is lighter and faster than the XML.
JSON has object types but XML doesn’t define objects as types. JSON has different object type for a different set of data such as string, integer, Boolean, array, etc. All XML objects are categorized as just one data type, i.e. string.
JSON data can be easily accessed as a JSON object using JavaScript. On the other hand, the XML data need to be parsed and allocated to the variables using APIs. Getting value out of a JSON is as easy as reading an object from your JavaScript programming.
This text-based lightweight nature makes JSON more accessible and useful than XML.
