JSON Vs XML : What’s the Difference?

 

JSON	XML
JavaScript Object Notation	Extensible mark-up language
JSON object has a type	XML data is type less.
JSON is Supported by Most browsers	Cross-browser XML parsing can be tricky.
JSON type – String, number, array, Boolean	All XML data should be string.
Data is readily accessible as JSON objects	XML data needs to be parsed.
Retrieving value is easy	Retrieving value is difficult
It Supports only UTF-8 encoding	It supports various encoding.
It doesn’t support comments	It supports comments.
It is less secured	It is more secure than JSON
It does not provide any support for namespace	It supports namespaces.
JSON has no tags.	XML data is represented in tags.
JSON is data-oriented.	XML is document-oriented.