It is then up to the recipient to select a flavor it understands. Here's a concrete example. The V1.2 flavor is the preferred flavor for data transfer within the word processing application or between applications in the suite. Flavors V1.1 and V1.0 exist for backward compatibility. The RTF flavor exists for those applications that understand neither V1.2, V1.1, nor V1.0, but need formatting information.
Plain text is the lowest common denominator.
Data flavors are represented by instances of the DataFlavor class. The human-readable name is a simple string naming the data flavor. It's recommended for human consumption only. The logical name succinctly identifies a data flavor. The type field indicates the broad category, the subtype field indicates the particular brand within that category.