Scripting News: Is JSON easier to read than XML?

Sunday June 6, 2021; 12:41 PM EDT

Maybe: JSON is easier to read than XML.#

JSON is generally arranged as an outline, #
JSON generally has more whitespace, better arranged, #
XML is more dense, and#
Lists are easier to read vertically than horizontally.", #

However there are no rules about how either JSON or XML are arranged, where the whitespace goes, how indentation works, or even if there is any whitespace or indentation, so it's possible to create totally unreadable data in either format. #
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