Binary data (branch from future of VOTable)

[Alasdair Allan]

> Just a minor update: BinX isn't so much a format as a library which allows
> arbitrary binary data to be described in standard XML.  BinX can be used
> to describe a FITS file, for example (one of its design goals) and thereby
> transform it to some other format using XSL.  More on it at
> http://www.edikt.org/binx/index.htm
> 
> DFDL stands for Data Format Description Language and is a GGF working
> group.  More at http://forge.gridforum.org/projects/dfdl-wg/
> One idea is that, eventually, it may be possible to search binary data
> using something like Xpath.

Ah! okay...

Surely if you can describe a binary file using BinX, you can then use some 
sort of Xpath layer to search it. Doesn't this mean DFDL isn't needed?

Al.
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Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter