Data Loading

Data loading from external files.

These functions help you with loading and embedding data, for example from the results of an experiment.

Encoding

Some of the functions are also capable of encoding, e.g. cbor.encode. They facilitate passing structured data to plugins.

However, each data format has its own native types. Therefore, for an arbitrary Typst value, the encode-to-decode roundtrip might be lossy. In general, numbers, strings, and arrays or dictionaries composed of them can be reliably converted, while other types may fall back to strings via repr, which is for debugging purposes only. Please refer to the page of each data format for details.

Definitions

	Name	Description
—	cbor	Reads structured data from a CBOR file.
—	csv	Reads structured data from a CSV file.
—	json	Reads structured data from a JSON file.
—	read	Reads plain text or data from a file.
—	toml	Reads structured data from a TOML file.
—	xml	Reads structured data from an XML file.
—	yaml	Reads structured data from a YAML file.