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> > Although these are good measures, once you adopt them you may start asking yourself why you aren't just using a binary format.  The argument for text is that you can glance at a chunk of it and easily tell what's going on.
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> A stronger argument for text is that you can process it with text-oriented tools.

Process it with text orientied tools is a strong argument. If there are a good parser a format it might actually be a good candidate?

Nicklas Karlsson