Adobe Style Layer (ASL) file structure

Hello. I'm curious if there a way to get the description of ASL-file. I would like to know it's structure: file-header, data-types...
ASL-files are for layer styling. You can add bevel, shadow, glow, stroke, etc. to the layer and save the settings as a style preset, which then can be stored on a hard-drive as a ASL-file.
Is there any documentation on this topic?

It's a descriptor list, similar to actions files.
The actions format is described in the SDK, but it's a non-trivial format.

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