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NARRATIVE
Consisting of or characterised by the telling of a story
DocBook - File Type vs Extensions
File identification
- File Type, MIME Type, Magic Number
- For convenience during this talk I am considering these the same thing.
- MIME type are not necessarily connected to file type. For example a TSV file (Tab serperated data) as either text/plain or text/tab-separated-values - or even application/octet-stream.
- MIME only has a very few types for XML(application/xml, text/xml) - this is actually completely inaccurate - more to come.
- File Type, MIME Type, Magic Number