JSON, XML and YAML have their place in many existing environments like Drupal and Symfony. It is a requirement for using those platforms. For new applications, the choice is yours.

HTML and XML are structural foundations of every website or application. It is crucial that developers learn — and master — both.

XML and JSON are important to me, and I’m grateful to Apress for letting me write an entire book about them. In this article I will briefly introduce the second edition of my new book, Java XML ...