On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:59, Bartosz Sawicki <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Right, I wasn't suggesting that the existing format should be abandoned in favor of XDMF, just that exactly this issue has been addressed in XDMF and a fair amount of thought went into those decisions. Inlining binary data, encoded or otherwise, is very weird in an XML file. If it's big enough that binary matters, it's already way bigger than you want to scan around in with a pager so I can't see why you'd ever want it inlined. > The other option is to have one binary file, and some utility displaying its > internal structure (like h5dump). I'm happy with plain HDF5 and think h5dump output is easier to read than XML. I don't know of any standards for arbitrarily high-order elements which is why I created my own format. This is a bummer because then visualization plugins need to be written. Jed _______________________________________________ DOLFIN-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.fenics.org/mailman/listinfo/dolfin-dev
