Is there a generic term for hierarchical text data with attributes stored in an XML file? Like bmp
and png
and jfif
files contains raster graphics, wav
, mp3
and ogg
files contains sound, smf
contains music performance data etc. XML-like data can be serialised in different ways. For example, end tags can be written by closing parenthesis, one can use escape characters instead of entities/CDATA sections. It can also be a Matroska, which is some binary encoding of similar structures. The XML files are called "application/xml
text/xml" so it is an example of an "Application" file, but any file is an "Application" file.
What about Text resource data? It is generic and probably enlightens the main purpose.
I chose the term TextResource
, since it is what it should be used for within the project scope: Documents, Configuration files, etc.