JSON vs XML

Question

If you are about to start a new project and there is a need to store your data in light weight format. Would you go for JSON or XML?

Answer 1

@Waleed
Thanks you for the link.

Answer 2

XML is more handy because it's so similar to HTML. So I rather transfer data via XML.

Answer 3

Could you please, explain what JSON is?

Answer 4

stands for javascript object notion @Manual. its basically a bunch of key:value pairs. but yea you can google more on it if you are interested

Answer 5

This is a quick introduction @Manual
https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_intro.asp

Answer 6

what do you mean by "handy"? Isn't supposed to be measured by serialization / deserialization performance?