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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:54:42PM +0200, Johan Hoffman wrote:
>
> > Do we have support for reading time dependent functions? And if so, is
> > there a demo around? I couldn't find such a functionality in XMLFunction?
> >
> > /Johan
>
> No, we just have static functions at this point. So you need to have
> one function per file.
>
> We could add something like a new class TimeSeries and implement XML
> input/output for that:
>
> <timeseries>
>     <frame t="0.0">
>         <function>
>             ...
>         </function>
>     </frame>
> </timeseries>

What about using that same approach as for VTK files?  The function at 
each time step can be written to a file with a number appended (000, 
001, etc). A "main" xml file can contain a list of the files and the 
time corresponding to each one.

Garth

> This might be useful to have, but for efficient reading/writing of
> functions, one may consider a binary format that just reads and writes
> the dofs.
>
> /Anders
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