>Dragan pretty much answered from my POV.
>There is only one aspect where XML has benefits over JSON, that is in wrapping text fields with delimiters / not forcing any encoding to the string or memo field.
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>XML got worse when interlocking schema definitions came with SOAP, but there are also some different flavors of JSON - but those most of the time present no or small parsing problems.
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>To honor https://xkcd.com/927/ I often wonder if text/memo fields in JSON should be wrapped in <txt></txt> instead of ["], as then chars inside the delimiters could be left alone.

I think we've found a way to use base64 encoding in json, but in the end didn't need it, so I have no example to show it. But IMO much cleaner than the current implementation of backslash-this and backslash-that for "special" characters (and I do mean the quotation marks seriously, not as emphasis). All characters should have equal rights!