> but not that big of a deal. I think parsing and reading are far more important to get right which XML didn't.

...in your opinion, for your use cases. I think XML is eminently more readable due to the fact that it has named types and also because I never have to read the following and figure out what goes where:

    }}}}}]]}}]]}}

JSON is great for sending data to Javascript though and I'm pretty sure that's the only reason anyone is using it.