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Those files are created whenever you drag a text selection to the Finder. The file size is always 0 bytes. Apparently the data is stored in a resource fork.
I tried reading the resource fork[1], but get error code -39 (end of file).
Here some more details about the file:
$>xattr test.textClipping
com.apple.FinderInfo
com.apple.ResourceFork
Look up FSOpenFork and FSReadFork.
(Apple has a code sample called AudioCDSample).
There’a also a command line tool that can read those files (/usr/bin/DeRez), you may want to look at it under GDB, but from what I’ve seen it uses deprecated APIs (i.e. FSRead in place of FSReadFork).