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A Brief Introduction to JSON
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`JSON`_ stands for JavaScript Object Notation, and is similar in many ways to XML. JSON was created to replace XML with a more user friendly language. It was designed to be a simpler and easier to use markup language. It does this by cutting out unnecessary parts of the XML language, such as closing tags. One area where JSON excels is that it is a data-oriented language, compared to XML, which is document-oriented.

Here is a simple example of the difference between the XML and JSON languages:

Here is an example of a XML code block.

.. code-block:: xml
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A Brief Introduction to JSON
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`JSON`_ stands for JavaScript Object Notation, and is similar in many ways to XML. JSON was created to replace XML with a more user friendly language. It was designed to be a simpler and easier to use markup language. It does this by cutting out unnecessary parts of the XML language, such as closing tags. One area where JSON excels is that it is a data-oriented language, compared to XML, which is document-oriented.

Here is the same code block using JSON.

.. code-block:: json
{
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