Solution: Create a new, unified, universal way of serializing data.
Problem: There are N+1 different ways of serializing data and it's a lot of work to support them all.
Problem: the computer systems we use are insufficiently flexible/too flexible, encouraging the use of N different ways of serializing data.
Solution: make a computer system which encourages centralizing the mechanism by which data is serialized.
In practice, though, you end up with something like XML, which (to steal a phrase, I wish I could remember where I read it) is less a common language than it is an alphabet. I guess it's better than CSV.