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Both Java and the XML are in heavy use today with plenty of people caring about them.

XML is still the right tool for the job for many use cases. JSON is great for serializing data structures. XML is great for marking up various types of textual data.

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I don't understand why people dismiss XML like that, I use it a lot at my line of work and it makes sense.

We need the structure that JSON can't give us and other data markup languages are too obscure to teach them to everyone we work with.

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