- Extension
- .mat
- .xml
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Data
- Developer
- Developer
- The MathWorks
- W3C
- Description
- A MAT-file holds the variables saved from a MATLAB session: numeric arrays such as matrices and images, text, cell arrays and structs. Files saved with -v7.3 are HDF5 files behind a MATLAB header. Unity and Unreal material files use the .mat extension too, but they are a different format.
- An XML file is an XML (Extensible Markup Language) data file. It is formatted much like an .HTML document, but uses custom tags to define objects and the data within each object. XML files can be thought of as a text-based database.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/xml
