A data format is a specification for the serialized representation of structured data.
Data formats
Machine Instructions
- ELF
- Executable and Linkable Format, used by many UNIX systems.
Textual Printable
- ycl::text::ftclp
- Formats a string as a printable Tcl string. Non-printable characters are transformed into their most simple backslash-escaped representation.
Textual Encoding
- ASN
- netstrings
Textual Recordset
- csv
- recfile
Textual Nesting Data Structure
- deep dict
- A deep list in which each deep list is interpreted as a deep dictionary.
- deep list
- A standard Tcl list in which each single value is encoded as a list containing only one item, and each list containing multiple items is itself a deep list. This makes it possible to differentiate e.g., the single value one two three from a list containing the values one, two, and three.
- Tcl list
- Tcl script
- HTML
- huddle
- JSON
- Based on ECMAscript syntax.
- SEXP
- Tclon
- TDL
- ton
- Tcl Object Notation
- XML
- YAML
- vrtcl
Textual Structured Documents
- SGML
- XML
- YAML
Textual Layout
- HTML
- RTF
- TMML
Spreadsheets
- CSV
- Excel
Graphics
Bitmap
- Bitmap
- GIF
- Pixmap
- TIFF
- PNG
- XPM
- BMP
- Img
Vector
- CAD
- CGM
- DXF
- Postscript
- PDF
- SVG
- VML
- WMF
- XSL-FO
Audio
Digitized sound
- mp3
- wav
Music
- MIDI
Media containers
- ogg
See Also
- Wotsit
- Contains information on hundreds of different file types, data types, hardware interface details and all sorts of other useful programming information; algorithms, source code, specifications, etc.
- markup language
- data is code
- code is data is code