&quot;a few pages of XML that could easily be a few lines of json&quot;<p>There is no sane way that you could represent &quot;pages of XML&quot; in &quot;a few lines of JSON&quot;.
Maybe the point you&#x27;re trying to make is that you need just a handful of key:value pairs but whatever generates your config sees fit to do incredibly deep nesting...but that would be an issue with your application, not XML.