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XML Is Not Dead: Why Enterprises Still Rely on It

Despite the JSON revolution, XML remains entrenched in healthcare, finance, and government systems. Here's why — and what to do about it.

October 22, 2024·5 min read·Try the XML Formatter →

The Premature Death of XML

Around 2010, developers started declaring XML dead. JSON had arrived, REST had displaced SOAP, and the web development community moved on. Today, new APIs are built in JSON. New microservices speak JSON. The startup world has largely never touched XML.

But in regulated industries — healthcare, finance, government, telecommunications — XML never left. It didn't lose the argument. It simply wasn't the kind of technology you can replace by declaring a winner on a blog.

Where XML Is Entrenched

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What XML Gets Right

XML's persistence isn't nostalgia. Several of its features remain genuinely useful in enterprise contexts:

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Working With XML in 2024

If you're a developer in a modern stack who needs to interface with XML-heavy enterprise systems, a few pragmatic approaches help:

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