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XML, granted, is very useful, but can be quite verbose. What alternatives are there and are they specialised for any particular purpose? Library support to interrogate the contents easily is a big plus point.
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YAML, HTML5, JSON, JavaScript, and Python are the most popular alternatives and competitors to XML.
CSV should only be used if you are sending huge amounts of data and if bandwidth is an issue. Today, XML should not be used as a data exchange format because it's better suited for document markups.
XML still lives today, mainly because it is platform agnostic. It supports Unicode and is often used as part of a data presentation workflow.
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format and it completely language independent. It is based on the JavaScript programming language and easy to understand and generate. XML (Extensible markup language) was designed to carry data, not to display data.
There seems to be a lot of multi-platform support for JSON.
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