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		lazylland on June 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the... I recall having an easy time de/serializing XML in C# ... you don't HAVE to get into the syntax business if you don't want to. And I think the Java also has something analogous in the JAXB library

natural219 on June 23, 2011 [–]

If you work with any data that's remotely complicated (i.e. practically any relational data), then you get into some pretty hefty messes with C#'s and JAXB's serializers. Unless you know XML schemas thoroughly, trying to map pointers in serialized XML is a mess.

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