Text-based data

File Format
Name	Text-based data
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Text-based data

Introduction

Text based data, AKA plain text. has proven to be very hard to understand. This has not only to do with the infinite ways text based data might be structured, but mainly because you need to know the encoding (eg. UTF8) before you can start interpreting it.

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Text formats and resources

• Attribute-Relation File Format
• Column Delimited
• CSV (Comma Separated Values; comma-delimited)
• FidoNet nodelists
• Org-mode
• Markdown
• reStructuredText
• Softdisk Publishing UDF files
• Tab delimited
• Text Encoding Initiative
• Textile
• XML

See Also

• TXT
• Some text-based formats are listed in Document or Serialization