On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Michael Sokolov
<sokolov@ifactory.com> wrote:
However I think we need to recognize that there is data for which XML was
not designed and is ill-suited. Binary, numeric data, such as video, images
and audio, to say nothing of scientific data (years of detector readings in
a neutrino decay experiment) is just not the sweet spot for XML
And companies that do a lot engineering work and must pass analysis files around could really do with a well-known-standard-with-lots-tools format. These files are big, 100MB being on the low end. The binary HDF5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_Data_Format has filled this role for many years in the engineering domain. And has recently benefited from being selected as an international standard ISO 10303-26 (part 26)
