On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Anders Logg <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ DOLFIN-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
