Supported formats
During the process of normalisation, Xena will convert the following file types to the specified open format.
Note: Xena will automatically binary normalise any unsupported file types.
Archives and Compressed Files
| GZIP | All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into separate Xena files. |
| JAR | All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into separate Xena files. A Xena index file is created, which when opened in a Xena Viewer, will display the files in a table. |
| MAC BINARY | All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into separate Xena files. |
| TAR | All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into separate Xena files. A Xena index file is created, which when opened in a Xena Viewer, will display the files in a table. |
| TAR.GZ | Works as a combination of 'GZIP' and 'TAR'. All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into separate Xena files. |
| WAR | All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into separate Xena files. A Xena index file is created, which when opened in a Xena viewer, will display the files in a table. |
| ZIP | All files are extracted from the archive and normalised into separate Xena files. A Xena index file is created, which when opened in a Xena viewer, will display the files in a table. |
Audio
| AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format files are converted to FLAC. |
| FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec files are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
| MP3 | MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 files are converted to FLAC. |
| OGG | OGG container format files are converted to FLAC. |
| WAV | Waveform Audio Files are converted to FLAC. |
Databases
| SQL | Structured Query Language files are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
Documents
| CSV/TSV | Comma and Tab Separated Values-based files are stored as a special case of plain text. |
| DOC/PPS/PPT/XLS | Microsoft Office documents are converted to the Open Document Format. |
| DOCX/PPTX/XLSX | Microsoft Office Open XML documents are converted to the Open Document Format. |
| HTML | Hypertext Markup Language files are converted to XHTML. |
| MPP | Microsoft Project documents are converted to XML. |
| ODS/ODP/ODT | Open Document files are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
| RTF | Rich Text Format is converted to Open Document Format. |
| SYLK | This spreadsheet format is converted to Open Document Format. |
| SXC/SXI/SXW | StarOffice formats are open, but are converted to the newer Open Document Format. |
| TXT | Text files are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
| WPD | Word Perfect files are converted to Open Document Format. |
| XHTML | Extensible Hypertext Markup Language files are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language files are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
Email
| MBX/MBOX | Mailboxes are converted to individual XML files and a Xena index file is created which will display the files in a table when opened with Xena Viewer. |
| PST | Mailboxes from Microsoft Outlook are converted to individual XML files and a Xena index file is created which will display the files in a table when opened with Xena Viewer. |
| TRIM | Messages from TRIM are converted to XML and a Xena index file is created which will display the files in a table when opened with Xena Viewer. |
Graphics
| BMP | Bitmap image files are converted to PNG. |
| CUR | Windows cursor files are converted to PNG. |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format image files are converted to PNG. |
| JPEG | JPEG image files are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
| ODG | Open Office Document Drawings are preserved and wrapped in Xena XML. |
| PCX | Personal Computer eXchange image files are converted to PNG. |
| Portable Document Format files are preserved and wrapped in XML. | |
| PNG | Portable Network Graphics are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
| PNM | Portable Anymap graphic bitmap files are converted to PNG. |
| PSD | Photoshop image files are converted to PNG. |
| RAS | Sun raster graphics are converted to PNG. |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
| TIFF | Tagged Image File Format image files are converted to PNG. Embedded metadata is preserved in Xena XML. |
| XBM | X11 Bitmap Graphics are converted to PNG. |
| XPM | Unix Icon files are converted to PNG. |
Page Description
| CSS | Cascading Style Sheets are preserved and wrapped in XML. |
| Scripts | All scripting files are stored as plain text. |
| XSLT | Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations are preserved and wrapped in XML. |