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by dgb23 727 days ago
Not OP:

I'm in the same boat, but I found XML has some nice properties that I sometimes miss in JSON, given that XML is used well ("correctly"), such as the differentiation of metadata (attributes) and data (nodes), namespaces, standard query languages, XSLT etc. (You can use XSLT on the web even.)

Think of all the custom, ad-hoc code that turns JSON into HTML vs having a declarative standardized way of doing so.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/XSLT