What is XML?

Verbose, strict, and still holding up enormous amounts of the world - government feeds, financial messaging, publishing, office documents. JSON took the web from it, but anywhere with schemas and validators and twenty years of history, XML is what's on the wire.

What is CSV?

The least glamorous and most durable data format there is: rows of values separated by commas, readable by every spreadsheet and database ever written. All its subtlety is in quoting - a value with a comma in it has to be wrapped in quotes, and a quote inside that has to be doubled.