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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:18:58AM +0200, Joachim Berdal Haga wrote:
> Hi, we're considering adding support for saving the XDMF
> (www.xdmf.org) file format to DOLFIN. The main reasons are:
>
> - A mesh can be referenced by many data sets; not necessary to save
> the mesh at every time step.
> - Readable by ParaView.
>
> Does anybody have opinions as to whether XDMF is a good choice? It
> will, of course, entail yet another (optional) build dependency.

It needs to be coordinated with the work on adding HDF5 support:

https://code.launchpad.net/~cam-fenics/dolfin/phdf5

But I'm sure Garth will comment on that.

--
Anders