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NARRATIVE

Consisting of or characterised by the telling of a story

File Type vs Extension

• File identification continued...

  • Extension
    • The obvious one - .doc, .txt, .xdbk
  • XML Type (schema, DOCTYPE, etc)
    • Need to effectively parse the XML doc to find the type
    • Very flexible, open and extensible
    • Hard to make work with traditional tools (Make, OO)

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