Today, there exist many popular formats that are capable of storing tree-like hierarchies of data. Popular examples include JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and XML (Extensible Markup Language).

This past February, Microsoft publicly released the Office binary file formats specification. These describe how to parse Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files to review or extract the content. Because ...

Abstract: Binary file formats are regularly extended and modified, often unintentionally in the form of bugs in the implementations of applications and libraries that create files. Applications that ...

Base64 is a popular binary to ASCII encoding scheme designed to reliably transfer binary data across channels that have limited support for various content types. This article goes over the basics of ...

If you ever need to write a binary file from a traditional language like C, it isn’t all that hard to do. About the worst thing you might have to deal with is attempts to fake line endings across ...

Every computer user knows about different file formats that are commonly used in computing. One such file format that has been in use for decades is the BIN file format. The BIN file format is a ...

Abstract: Summary form only given. For the MPEG-7 standard, a binary format for the encoding of XML data has been developed that meets a set of requirements that was derived from a wide range of ...