You know, no one's saying this, but I'd just like to point to Douglas Crockford's accomplishment with JSON. Crocker thought of a really bare bones way to represent data that works in a huge number of cases people tried to use XML. XML has not lost, in any way, shape or form, and people will be using it to represent and structure data for a long time to come.
We can just be glad we have such a simple, common data structure before people start writing insanely complex data interchange formats on top of it. You could just as easily write SOAP in JSON.
We can just be glad we have such a simple, common data structure before people start writing insanely complex data interchange formats on top of it. You could just as easily write SOAP in JSON.