[Current Revision of the DTD]Revisions to the DTD for HDF 5.1.4 Summary of changes from HDF5.1.2 to HDF5.1.4 (April 2001)
"NCSA HDF XML Activities: Status and Lessons" Presentation to NASA Earth Science Technology Office/ESDIS XML Workshop (February 2001)
"Suggested Use Cases for XML with HDF-5" Extended discussion of use cases. (March 2000)"A DTD for HDF5: Design Notes" Lessons learned and design decisions. (March 2000)
"h5dump XML support: Design Notes" Changes made to the h5dump utility to support XML. (December, 2000)
"Representing "Binary" Data in XML" One of the major open issues in using XML for scientific applications is the representation of "binary" data, that is data that is not "character oriented". "What are the appropriate standards to employ?". (March, 2001)
"HDF5 Compound Data: Technical Issues for XML, Java, and Tools" HDF5 compound data types present a complex problem for non-C applications, include XML parsers, and Java applications. (March, 2001)
"Experiment with XSL: translating scientific data" An experiment using XSL to translate scientific data from netCDF to HDF5, using XML and XSL. (February, 2001)"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. (May, 2001)
Experiments with JSP, CORBA, etc.
*new* Kun Yan and Robert E. McGrath, "Experiments with JSP, XML, CORBA, and HDF" (August, 2002) [.pdf ]
Kun Yan and Robert E. McGrath"Experiments with Remote Access to Scientific Data using HDF5" (May 15, 2002) [.ppt]
Kun Yan and Robert E. McGrath, "Experiment on JSP, XML, and HDF" (September, 2001) [.pdf ]