[jimfuller]

yes, a bit of a cheap shot that ... and the guy works at a company that makes MarkLogic server which spits out XML ... but it also spits out JSON (all at very large scale I may add) so choose your poison.

Until someone replies with the same experimental rigor to refute the findingsthen I think the observations this paper makes stands ... thats how peer reviewed journals work.

The paper is not saying 'XML is better' or even 'XML is faster' ... its just addressing the perception that XML is slow in certain scenarios which has become a default myth.

JSON has been accepted as a datatype in the Markup conferences of the world its great for data transfer, XML is a compromise on many different levels but tends to be good for mixed content and documents. I think we've all moved on.