If you want to support using this feature for existing files, it is a
mistake to look for one "standard" format. You need to support a
variety of formats--the ones people *already use* for such files.
Proposed answer: implement file content inheritance.
That could mean lots of things. I can't tell whether you're talking
about the idea that won't work, or some other idea that might work.
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