JavaScript

json - an alternative to xml

json can be seen as a light-weight alternative to XML.

http://www.json.org/index.html
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. It is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999.

It is just a very minimalistic generic serialization method of data-structures (objects, lists, or however you call it), so it can be used within (or between) virtually any language(s), but as it is a subset of JavaScript, it is especially suited for use in JavaScript applications and being much leaner (schlanker) than XML it is the interchange-format of choice for AJAX-applications,
which is the explicit main purpose of this format.

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