When to prefer JSON over XML?

Question

My requirement is just to display a set of values retrieved from database on a spread. I am using jquery.

Answer 1

Considering your specific case where you're already doing javascript on the client side, I'd go with JSON for these reasons:

• Since JSON is native to javascript you'd have to write less code on the client side - Just eval() (or, better yet, JSON.parse()) the JSON string and get an object you can use.

• At the same time evaluating JSON on the client-side will be more efficient, and therefore faster.

• JSON serialization produces shorter strings than XML. Using JSON will reduce the amount of data running across the wire and improve performance in that respect.

Here's some further reading: http://www.subbu.org/blog/2006/08/json-vs-xml