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Extensible Binary Meta Language

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Extensible Binary Meta Language, or EBML, is a generalized file format for (theoretically) any kind of data, aiming to be a binary equivalent to XML. Unfortunately it fails the "extensible" part of its name due to the fact that the DTD of the extended format must be available to a decoder to allow reading of the data. Unlike XML a DTD of a previous version or no DTD is not useful.

It was originally developed for the Matroska audio/video container format.

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