Format
XML Property List
Summary
- Name
- XML Property List
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/979
- Format type
- Text (Mark-up)
- Description
- In the OS X, iOS, NeXTSTEP, and GNUstep programming frameworks, property list files store serialized objects. It is the standard way to save and load data between the internal representation within the objects defined in an Objective-C program and disk files, in order to store program settings and other data. This is the XML version but there is also a binary version of the format.
- File extensions
-
plist - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has lower priority than
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
XML Property List
- Note
- BOF: <?xml version=("|')1.0("|'){8-256}<plist version="1.0">
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D(22|27)312E30(22|27){8-256}3C706C6973742076657273696F6E3D22312E30223E- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V89
- Release date
- 8 March 2017
XML Property List: Binary signature developed through PRONOM Research.
XML Property List: Full entry added.