This web area contains information about the development of the
XML DTD and tools for HDF-5.
This material includes discussions, notes, and documentation.
| Date | Document |
| 5-9-01 | Experiment Report: "An Experimental Comparison of HDF4, HDF5, and XML Representations of the Same Dataset" Examination of conversion of HDF4 to HDF5, and HDF5 to XML for selected NASA datasets, including compressed XML vs HDF. |
| 4-5-01 | Product Announcement:
New tools release |
| 4-5-01 | DTD update:
Revised DTD for HDF 5.1.4 |
| 2-28-01 | Presentation:
"NCSA HDF XML Activities: Status and Lessons" |
| 2-21-01 | Experiment Report:
"Experiment with XSL: translating scientific data" |
| 12-14-00 | Engineering note:
"h5dump XML support: Design Notes" |
| (Old notes) | |
| 3-31-00 | Followup:
"Discussions of "Release Candidate 1" |
| 3-29-00 | Documentation:
"A DTD for HDF5: Design Notes" Robert E. McGrath |
| 3-27-00 | Release Candidate 1
merged revisions, 3/27/00 |
| 3-9-00 | For discussion:
"Suggested Use Cases for XML with HDF-5" revised and extended, 3-9-00 |
| 3-27-00 | "Updated HDF5 DTD, based
on my last version from 3-7-00"
QAK |
| 3-09-00 | For discussion:
"Suggested Use Cases for XML with HDF-5" revised and extended, 3-9-00 |
| 3-7-00 | "Revised HDF5 DTD, based
on Bob's version from 2-21-00"
QAK |
| 3-7-00 | "From Unidata: Revised DTD for NetCDF, plus Example" |
| 2-28-00 | "From Unidata: DTD for NetCDF" |
| 2-25-00 | For discussion:
"Some Suggested Use Cases for XML with HDF-5" REMcG |
| 2-25-00 | For discussion:
"Representation of Data Values in XML: Consider XDF" REMcG |
| 2-24-00 | Follow-up:
"Notes from DM meeting, 2-23-00" REMcG |
| 2-21-00 | "Revised HDF5 DTD (Version 1)"
REMcG |
| 2-18-00 | Follow-up:
"XSIL Specification from Cal Tech" Mike Folk |
| 2-17-00 | Notes from Meeting
"Some key points from the DM meeting, 2/16/00" REMcG |
| 2-16-00 | Additional Discussion
"Some Design Choices in the DTD" REMcG |
| 2-7-00 | Discussion Document and Example DTD:
"Experimental DTD for HDF5" (Robert E. McGrath ) |