Format
NIB File Format
Summary
- Name
- NIB File Format
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/983
- Format type
- Text (Mark-up)
- Description
- The NIB file format is used by Interface Builder, a software development application for Apple's Mac OS X operating system. The NIB objects are stored as an XML property list, they are unpackaged upon running an application.
- File extensions
-
nib - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
NIB File Format
- Note
- BOF: <?xml version=("|')1.0("|'){8-256}<plist version="1.0"> EOF: IBSystem Version
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
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from EOF
- Offset
- 8
- Max offset
- 256
- Byte Sequence
494253797374656D2056657273696F6E- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V89
- Release date
- 8 March 2017
NIB File Format: Binary signature developed through PRONOM Research.
NIB File Format: Full entry added.