Why XML ?

Today , I stumbled upon this article.

An elaborate XML to JavaScript code , done by some talented M$FT developer.

I wanted to share it with you. Why? Because I think of it as a nice example telling us clearly why is JSON so much better than XML. It all starts with this XML as an example:

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I got immediately and intensely wondering, why not just ‘store’ these books like this :

How superior… So, I have to ask again: Why XML ?

2008-12-12 Update

Proper JSON to XML , without any loss of information would be :

This when stored does not loose any information that was in XML.

DBJ