IMO, you made the JSON unreadable with all the extra whitespace that you didn't add to the XML.
{"note":
{"paragraph":
["This is a ", {"code": [{"vibe":"positive"}, "remarkable"]}, "text."]
}
}
Also, in this particular case I think the child/property dichotomy works in the favor of XML, but typically I find it to be more of a liability than an asset.
Yeah, S-expressions are way more pleasant to write.
With the benefit of a lot of hindsight, S-expressions seem like a superior choice for writing web applications (instead of HTML + JavaScript + some JS framework that writes HTML again (regardless of DOM vs Virtual DOM)).
Even though I prefer dialects like Fennel for programming rather than Common Lisp (I'd probably be fine with Clojure and Janet as well, but I haven't tried them), I wouldn't mind any dialect if that means I could use S-expressions instead of HTML+JS, assuming the amount of effort put into sandboxing that approach were as much as the effort that has been put into the current approach.
I love Lisp, but the quotes, and the structure ... Markup really shines here. Sorry. Same with JsonML, even though I never heard of it before, and will have a look because it just sounds so interesting.
