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["Jed Brown" <jed@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 13:54, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It would be nice to have it in XML to make it at least partly human
> readable. One may look at the file and see that it's a mesh, function,
> vector, whatever and that there is a portion of binary data.

Are you familiar with XDMF?  It stores either as inline XML or as
binary in a separate HDF5 file and is supported by ParaView and VisIt.
 If you ever read from a parallel file system (using MPIO), the HDF5
format is likely to be convenient and will perform lazy byte-swapping.
 While XDMF is insufficient for my application, I think it's
reasonably well designed and storing binary data in HDF5 is better
than the alternatives.

Jed