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[Victor Prosolin <flyaway1212@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bartosz Sawicki wrote:
> On 13/01/09 09:37 PM, Jed Brown wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> For me, XDMF is worth to consider. But it should be treat as a new 
> format in Dolfin, rather that an extention of already used XML.

I am not saying whether it's good or bad, but using XDMF will add to the
already long list of Dolfin dependencies.

Sincerely,
Victor Prosolin.

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