Version 19 of data format

Updated 2019-10-13 14:20:15 by pooryorick

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 list

A standard Tcl list in which each single value is encoded as a list containing only one item, and each sequence of values is a list containing more than one item. 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

huddle

TDL

xmlgen / htmlgen

JSON

Based on ECMAscript syntax.

SEXP

ton

Tcl Object Notation

Tclon

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

The Programmer's File and Data Resource

markup language

data is code

code is data is code

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