The orderly, typed part of me is always offended by CSV files even though they are fairly useful. Having a texted based data exchange format that is typed and d

The orderly, typed part of me is always offended by CSV files even though they are fairly useful. Having a texted based data exchange format that is typed and doesn't have the field overhead for each record is a good thing, I feel. I would greatly welcome any comments and experience with anything similar. After I'm pretty confident with the format I would like to write a reference library for it. Note to mods: please don't change the title I submitted under, the post title doesn't make much sense outside my blog, which I should change but cannot at the moment. The blog title, in my defence just references this spec because I'm not completely finished with the spec. I'm close and hope the hn community can give me feedback before I write an implementation.