Plist.txt

:Plist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list
File Format
    Encoding = UTF-8
    Line-ending-style = UNIX
    Comment (XML style) i.e:    <!-- some comment -->
    Escape: require both
        XML escape
            "   →  &quot;
            '   →  &apos;
            <   →  &lt;
            >   →  &gt;
            &   →  &amp;
        JSON escape with \   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON
            \   →  \\
            "   →  \"
            control codes (anything less than U+0020) i.e: u0010  →  \u0019

Structure
    Contain pairs of
        <key>field_name</key>
        <data_type></data_type>
    data_type
        <string></string>       UTF-8 encoded string
        <real></real>           Decimal number
        <integer></integer>     interger number
        <true/>                 No data
        <false/>                No data
        <date></date>           ISO 8601 formatted string
        <data></data>           Base64 encoded data
        <array></array>         Assign multiple values to 1 key. An empty array may be represented as <array/>
        <dict></dict>           Alternating <key> tags and plist element tags
    Example: string
        <key>background</key>
        <string>#000000</string>   //Background color = black (Hex = 000000)
    Example: dict
        <key>settings</key>
        <dict>
            <key>name</key>
            <string>entity.name.function.link.external</string>
            <key>match</key>
            <string>(ftp:\/\/|https?:\/\/)?([\w\.-]+)\.[a-z]{2,6}(\.|\/)\S*</string>
        </dict>
    Example: aray
        <key>fileTypes</key>
        <array>
            <string>reg</string>
            <string>REG</string>
        </array>
    Example: Use array to assign multiple dict value to 1 key
        <key>patterns</key>
        <array>
            <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>unicode.symbol</string>
                <key>match</key>
                <string>°|¹|²|³|⁴|⁵|⁶|⁷|⁸|⁹</string>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                <key>name</key>
                <string>entity.name.function.link.external</string>
                <key>match</key>
                <string>(ftp:\/\/|https?:\/\/)?([\w\.-]+)\.[a-z]{2,6}(\.|\/)\S*</string>
            </dict>
        </array>

Sublime Text PList
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    <plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>name</key>                         //Just a description, ST ignore this
        <string>Some name here</string>
        <key>scope</key>                        //Comma-separated list of scope names to apply to [[Scope.txt]]
        <string>text.txt, meta.function.python</string>
        <key>uuid</key>                         //Each file must have an unique ID
        <string>77AC23B6-8A90-11D9-BAA4-000A9584EC8D</string>
        <key>setting_name</key>                 //required by Sublime Text, i.e: settings; patterns
        <dict>
            Main Data, see [[tmPreferences.txt]]  [[tmLanguage.txt]]
        </dict>
    </dict>
    </plist>

To extract metadata information, you can use the view.meta_info(key, point) API call