Abstract: Various techniques for dynamically generating data streams from files are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from an application to open a file. The request has a file identifier identifying the file, an attribute designator, and a data attribute delineated from the file identifier by the attribute designator. The method also includes retrieving data of at least a portion of the file based on the determined file identifier and dynamically generating a data stream of the file in response to the received request to open the file by transforming the retrieved data according to the data attribute of the request. The method further includes supplying the generated data stream to the application.