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Yes, but that also interferes with portability.

I’ve written a lot of APIs. I generally start with CSV, convert that to XML, then convert that to JSON.

CSV is extremely limited, and there’s a lot of stuff that can only be expressed in XML or JSON, but starting with CSV usually enforces a “stream-friendly” structure.



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