[GIS] n XML equivalent to GeoJSON

Question

In my web application, I am retrieving geospatial data from a server backend (Java) to the browser frontend (JavaScript). I am considering two options of how to serialize the data in this communication – XML and JSON.

XML seems to be a faster option as it can be deserialized by browser itself (into a documentElement), while JSON must be deserialized by a JavaScript library. On the other hand, there is a standard for storing geospatial data in JSON (GeoJSON), so using JSON would make the application more standard-compliant.

So my question is, is there an XML equivalent to GeoJSON? I found out that the term GeoXML has already been coined, but it is the name of a library, not a format standard.

Answer 1

GML, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language

KML, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_Markup_Language

GML / KML difference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_Markup_Language#GML_and_KML