2006, well into the era of XML being the trendy fad that every piece of Serious Business software was supposed to use.
Now 18 years later, JSON seems to have displaced it.
Personally, I've never found text-based formats to be a good choice for data that humans will rarely need to read or write; I much prefer simple and efficient binary formats, which can be just as extensible without the additional inefficiency and needlessly-introduced-failures of string handling.
Now 18 years later, JSON seems to have displaced it.
Personally, I've never found text-based formats to be a good choice for data that humans will rarely need to read or write; I much prefer simple and efficient binary formats, which can be just as extensible without the additional inefficiency and needlessly-introduced-failures of string handling.