
November 12th, 2011, 02:37 AM
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XML has been designed to standardize communication, which is especially handy for communicating between several parties, as the structure of the document can be formally written down in a document and can be validated, so there is no discussion afterwards about the syntax of the document.
Although that is a noble idea, XML is relatively complex and not as light weight as, for example, json.
As long as you are writing your own client that communicates to your own server, the protocol used between those 2 can be anything, and do not need to be XML.
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