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Summary
Name	XML Property List
Version
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/979
Family
Classification	Text (Mark-up)
Disclosure
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.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	Has lower priority than AAE Sidecar Format Has lower priority than EazyDraw File Format Has lower priority than iMovieProj File Format Has lower priority than NIB File Format Has priority over Extensible Markup Language (1.0)
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date	06 Feb 2017
Source description	Versions prior to DROID 6.3 may not identify this format correctly
Last updated	06 Feb 2017
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