Standard file formats include
- delimited file formats
- Microsoft Excel Open .XML spreadsheet (.XLSX)
- Extensible Markup Language (.XML)
- Portable Document Format (.PDF)
- JavaScript Object Notation (.JSON)
Delimited file formats stores data as text with each line has values separated by delimiter (CSV and TSV)
XLSX is based on XML format.
XML is both readable by humans and machines and platform independent
PDF can be viewed same way on any device
JSON is text-based to send data over the web