https://lwn.net/Articles/688396/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "File-format analysis tools for archivists". en-us Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:01:04 +0000 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:01:04 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/688720/ https://lwn.net/Articles/688720/ oever File formats are a very interesting topic. While working on Microsoft Office import filters for Calligra, I wrote a small grammar for writing file format schemas. From that one can generate (de)serialization code for those file formats. There is an effort to write such grammars for more file formats. That grammar is called Data Format Description Language (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFDL">DFDL</a>). <p> Writing grammars for file format is the best way of doing IO. Writing IO by hand is just silly. If a file format has a grammar, it's easier to support it in new software. Thu, 26 May 2016 14:57:26 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/688676/ https://lwn.net/Articles/688676/ pabs <div class="FormattedComment"> A useful resource on file formats is the Archive Team's file formats wiki:<br> <p> <a href="http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/">http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/</a><br> </div> Thu, 26 May 2016 10:26:32 +0000