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That seems limited to specific types of media, though. Datatypes is a general purpose framework for creating a hierarchy of parsers for file formats.

It can be images or sound, but also text, or anything else. E.g. here's a small sample of datatypes from Aminet, excluding anything sound and graphics related:

* Datatypes for transparent decompression

* Datatypes for syntax highlighting

* Datatypes for parsing document formats (word etc.)

* Assorted hypertext datatypes

* Assorted datatypes for showing debug information and structure of various binary formats, like executables.



I just didn't want to list everything, hence why I added the remark "the way to do it depends on what kind of data type we are talking about", and yes I do not mean it was as exhaustive as DataTypes, as I don't know all use cases.




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