In message <20060607004005.5edd46b9.smb@cs.columbia.edu>, "Steven M. Bellovin" 
writes:
>Is there?  I'm skeptical.  If I understand this properly, it's not
>something one does very often; in the total system scheme of things, it
>just doesn't matter.

Well, hey, we have a data point available.

According to a quick find|xargs file, about 93% of plist files on a Mac OS X
system are XML text.

I assume they've documented the bplist format, but I'm not sure how much anyone
cares in practice.

-s