Re: 20000126: NetCDF and XML

>To: address@hidden
>From: A Keane <address@hidden>
>Subject: NetCDF and XML
>Organization: NOAA/ETL
>Keywords: 200001262340.QAA20466

Hi Anne,

> Are there any plans for XML support?

Yes, and there is already some XML support available.  For example, at

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/contrib/xml.tar.gz

there are sources for a new netCDF utility developed by Bear Giles,
ncxdump, that dumps the metadata or data for an arbitrary netCDF file
in the form of XML instead of CDL.  There's also a draft
netCDF DTD available with this download.

Under development is a companion ncxgen program that will go the other
direction as well, which would permit using XML tools to manipulate
netCDF data.

I hope to include some of this in the final release of netCDF 3.5.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu