I appreciate this article for it's objective voice. I've long felt the same way, but it feels like nice vindication when someone else posts similar thoughts.

For most of my data transfers, I still feel that a the good-old comma delimited text file is peachy-keen. However, if I have to transfer long narratives/text fields, it seems like XML is the way to go. What do other programmers use when you have to transfer large text fields?