Difference Between XML and JSON

Before explaining the Difference Between XML and JSON, let defines XML and JSON one by one first. Both XML and JSON files are human-readable and XML parsers and JSON parsers are available in most programming languages.

What is XML?

XML is an Extensive Markup Language primarily designed to carry data. It is a W3 recommendation. It is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both machine-readable and human-readable.

Example of XML

This note is a note to Binod from Anita, stored as XML:

<note>
<to>Binod</to>
<from>Anita</from>
<heading>Greetings</heading>
<body>Hello Binod, I hope you are well</body>
</note>

What is JSON?

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It is a lightweight language independent data-interchange format based on JavaScript. It is self-describing easy to understand that stores human-readable text to transmit data objects from server to web pages.

JSON Example
This example defines a student object: an array of 3 student records (objects):

{
“student”:[

{“firstName”:”Bikash”, “lastName”:”Rai”},
{“firstName”:”Prabin”, “lastName”:”Dhungana”},
{“firstName”:”Nawaraj”, “lastName”:”Basnet”}
]
}