Comment 62285

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted April 14, 2011 at 17:00:22 in reply to Comment 62277

CSV is probably the most democratic in that anybody can open it including laymen (Excel handles it moderately well), but CSV is poorly-standardized and also fails for any kind of hierarchical data.

RTH seems to focus heavily on JSON - while the data can really primarily be consumed by webapps, it's pleasantly human-readable in plain text form.

For this kind of data - hierarchical or flat data files - XML offers no value over JSON and is more verbose and less pleasant to read.

But XML has good tool support thanks to being more mature than JSON by virtue of it being a major fad about a decade ago, so it still sees a lot of use.

Comment edited by Pxtl on 2011-04-14 17:01:46

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