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Binary Format Description language
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<p>The Binary Format Description (BFD) language is an extension of <a href="/facts/XSIL/I8Pe5a5t">XSIL</a> which has added conditionals and the ability to reference files by their stream numbers, rather than by their public <a href="/facts/Uniform_Resource_Locator/pPD5g7Wq">URLs</a>. A <a href="/facts/Template_(programming)/TXEqGy7R">template</a> written in the BFD language can be applied to a binary data file to produce a file with that data formatted with descriptive <a href="/facts/XML/clNgUfWk">XML</a> tags. Such XML-tagged data is then readable by humans and generally by a wider set of computer programs than could read the original data file. </p>