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# JSON vs SOAP vs XML-RPC
- URL: https://werd.io/json-vs-soap-vs-xml-rpc/
- Published: 2007-01-02T18:46:59.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:07.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

There's [an interesting discussion happening over on Dave Winer's blog](http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/scripting-news-for-12202006) about [JSON](http://www.json.org/), a format for storing objects using a Javascript-like syntax. The idea is that parsing a JSON object is far less intensive than parsing XML (whose parsers still have pretty big footprints). It's an interesting idea, I think, but not everyone agrees.

Programmers out there: what are your thoughts?