File format readable/writable by business people

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Published on 2010-03-20T14:36:55Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 14:41 UTC
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I am creating a document database which business people will be able to easily send documents to. Which file format do you think is the most understandable and easy to write by business / non-technical people?

My current contenders are XML, JSON, and YAML

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