JSON is a very lightweight text serialization that can closely resemble your in-memory object structure. By Contrast XML support way more methods of serialization that are more complex and/or less clear in practice.
They could use a different file extension and even gzip the file as well. I often use line separated JSON+GZ as an interchange format for records.
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JSON is a very lightweight text serialization that can closely resemble your in-memory object structure. By Contrast XML support way more methods of serialization that are more complex and/or less clear in practice.
They could use a different file extension and even gzip the file as well. I often use line separated JSON+GZ as an interchange format for records.