Top 10 Open-Source Alternatives to XML

Product categories

Blogging Cloud Computing Configuration Management Databases Developer Tools Group Chat & Notifications Mobile Apps NoSQL Databases OS & Utilities Productivity Software Development Text Editors

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to XML are YAML, JSON, and Dhall Configuration Language. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

YAML Landing Page
1

YAML

YAML 1.2 --- YAML: YAML Ain't Markup Language
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 36 social mentions
JSON Landing Page
2

JSON

(JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Databases #NoSQL Databases #Software Development 13 social mentions
Dhall Configuration Language Landing Page
3

Dhall Configuration Language

A non-repetitive alternative to YAML
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Productivity 83 social mentions
Messagepack Landing Page
4

Messagepack

An efficient binary serialization format.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 13 social mentions
Protobuf Landing Page
5

Protobuf

Protocol buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 82 social mentions
Jsonnet Landing Page
6

Jsonnet

A powerful DSL for elegant description of JSON data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Software Development #Mobile Apps 32 social mentions
Protocol Buffers Landing Page
7

Protocol Buffers

A method for serializing and interchanging structured data.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Mobile Apps #Productivity 15 social mentions
Multipass Landing Page
8

Multipass

Multipass provides a command line interface to launch, manage and generally fiddle about with instances of Linux.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Virtualization Platform 86 social mentions
Podman Landing Page
9

Podman

Simple debugging tool for pods and images
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Productivity #Cloud Computing 101 social mentions
Quarto Landing Page
10

Quarto

Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Configuration Management #Text Editors #Mobile Apps 20 social mentions