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JSON vs SOAP vs XML-RPC

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02 Jan 2007

There's an interesting discussion happening over on Dave Winer's blog about JSON, 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?

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