BFD - Revision history

Jsummers: Updated category

2017-08-14T16:26:40Z

Updated category

Dan Tobias at 04:17, 20 May 2014

2014-05-20T04:17:20Z

Dan Tobias at 12:55, 17 December 2013

2013-12-17T12:55:29Z

Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Metaformats }} '''BFD''' (Binary Format Description, not Big F***ing Deal) is an XML format based on XSIL (eXtensible S..."

2013-12-17T12:54:07Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Metaformats }} '''BFD''' (Binary Format Description, not Big F***ing Deal) is an XML format based on XSIL (eXtensible S..."

New page

{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Metaformats
}}
'''[[BFD]]''' (Binary Format Description, not Big F***ing Deal) is an [[XML]] format based on [[XSIL]] (eXtensible Scientific Interchange Language). It is intended to be used to describe file formats, similarly to [[DFDL]]; these appear to be two initiatives aiming at the same thing.

Despite the "binary" in its name, BFD can also describe text-based ([[ASCII]]) file formats, since text is, after all, one variety of binary data.

== Links ==
* [http://collaboratory.emsl.pnl.gov/sam/bfd/ Page describing BFD]

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 '''BFD''' (Binary Format Description, not Big F***ing Deal) is an [[XML]] format based on [[XSIL]] (eXtensible Scientific Interchange Language). It is intended to be used to describe file formats, similarly to [[DFDL]]; these appear to be two initiatives aiming at the same thing.

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-'''[[BFD]]''' (Binary Format Description, not Big F***ing Deal) is an [[XML]] format based on [[XSIL]] (eXtensible Scientific Interchange Language). It is intended to be used to describe file formats, similarly to [[DFDL]]; these appear to be two initiatives aiming at the same thing.
+'''BFD''' (Binary Format Description, not Big F***ing Deal) is an [[XML]] format based on [[XSIL]] (eXtensible Scientific Interchange Language). It is intended to be used to describe file formats, similarly to [[DFDL]]; these appear to be two initiatives aiming at the same thing.
 Despite the "binary" in its name, BFD can also describe text-based ([[ASCII]]) file formats, since text is, after all, one variety of binary data.