XDF is a common scientific data format based on XML and general mathematical principles that can be used throughout the scientific disciplines. It includes these key features: hierarchical data structures, any dimensional arrays merged with coordinate information, high dimensional tables merged with field information, variable resolution, easy wrapping of existing data, user specified coordinate systems, searchable ASCII meta-data, and extensibility to new features/data formats.
The XDF project is no longer supported, and all development has been halted. These pages appear as a service to existing XDF users. There are 2 versions of XDF available: a "stable" and "development" version. These versions are defined in their various DTDs with version XDF_017.dtd ("017") being the stable, older type of XDF and version XDF_018.dtd ("018") being our development standard. We support both the stable and development versions in Java and Perl packages.
| Move XDF website to UMD host. | ||
| Perl XDF Package | Development version 018 alpha 2 released. | |
| Perl XDF Package | "Final" version 017 released (stable patchlevel 3) | |
| - Barring user patches, this is it for Perl work on 017. | ||
| Java XDF Package | Stable version 017 candidate 1 released. | |
| Java XDF Package | Development version 018 released (alpha1). |
(FITSML) is an XML/XDF language rendition of the Flexible Image Transport System
that is used primarily in astronomy.
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Authors: Dr. Brian Thomas
and Dr. Ed Shaya |
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