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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:45:30AM +0100, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> > We just discussed that in another thread, and the answer from
> > everybody is yes please, that would be nice. XML file with metadata +
> > raw files with arrays is one solution. And of course, there are many
> > standardized file formats we could support in time for communication
> > with external tools.
>
> How about sticking everything into the XML file but with some suitable
> tags:

I think that this is what Martin is suggesting. VTK has a file format 
like this (although with binary content it is no longer strictly XML as 
far as I understand).

Garth

>   <dolfin>
>     <vector size="..." format="binary>
>       <binary type="..." size="...">stick binary data here</binary>
>     </vector>
>   </dolfin>
>
> ?
>
>
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