<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 13:41, Matthew Knepley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>There is a working XDMF viewer inĀ <a href="http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/pylith" target="_blank">http://geodynamics.org/cig/software/pylith</a> but I have not moved it over</div>
<div>yet. Jed maintains that the appended binary is better.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>I don't have a problem with XDMF, but you need HDF5 to use it. Appended binary has many stupid limitations, not least of which is that you can't write anything into the file until you have everything that you will write into the file (or pick some arbitrary maximum size for the header). At least HDF5 manages that for you.</div>