XML Use Cases
The HDF5 DTD will support a variety of uses:
- Viewing structure and contents of HDF5 file using a Web browser
- XML as a catalog record for locating datasets
- XML as an intermediate form for programs
- Generation, validation, and reconstruction of HDF5 files
- XML as intermediate to other formal languages and file formats
- Store XML in archive or in dataset as machine readable documentation
- Templates, skeleton files, etc.