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(Now, I am not saying that for data JSON is always the best, nor that XML doesn't have other features that may make it best to provide feeds in both JSON and XML, nor that if you currently have a good XML infrastructure you should rip it up and not take advantage of it.)
You may not be saying that but that's the sentiment behind JSON for enterprise integration, we killed XML or JSON ate it's lunch. So NIEM, FPML and god knows who else end up having to put out a JSON spec even though JSON is not capable of representing the semantics in those data models.