1784 XML Property List Text (Mark-up) 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. 1 Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives 06 Feb 2017 Versions prior to DROID 6.3 may not identify this format correctly 06 Feb 2017 fmt/979 PUID plist File extension 1340 XML Property List BOF: <?xml version=("|')1.0("|'){8-256}<plist version="1.0"> 1 Absolute from BOF 0 0 3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D(22|27)312E30(22|27){8-256}3C706C6973742076657273696F6E3D22312E30223E Has lower priority than 1785 AAE Sidecar Format Has lower priority than 1786 EazyDraw File Format Has lower priority than 1787 iMovieProj File Format Has lower priority than 1788 NIB File Format Has priority over 638 Extensible Markup Language