====== Common formats ======

XML, JSON, CSV

^  ^ Splittable ^ Parsing efficiency ^ Reusability ^ Add new fields ^ Ignore unused fields ^ small data size ^ Hierarchical ^
| XML | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| JSON | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| CSV | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [[http://code.google.com/p/protobuf|Protocol Buffers]] | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |

score: 0=bad, 1=medium, 2=good