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["Martin Sandve Alnæs" <martinal@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:24:41PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>
> ok, I thought he meant having the data in a separate file.

I did, but I don't care. The advantage of separate binary files
is that the XML file can be read as a text file, both by humans
and machines. Also, binary data will have fixed computable
positions in the pure binary file, which might be useful for ... something?

Martin