Serialization

File Format
Name	Serialization
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Serialization
No, I said serial, idiot.

• Bencode (used by BitTorrent)
• DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules)
• IWA (Apple iWork serialization; .iwa)
• JSON (.json)
• Microsoft XNA Compiled Format (.xnb)
• Property List (.plist)
• Protobuf (Protocol Buffers; a Google format also used within IWA)
• YAML (.yaml)
• Pickle (Python 2)

See Also

• Text-based data
• Metaformats
• Databases