See
AlternativesToXml. ZCDSF is data serialization format, like XML, JSON, etc.
Advantages includes:
- No reserved words.
- External encoding, rather than Unicode.
- Comments starts with # meaning that a shebang line is possible if you want it.
- Has support for macros.
- Uses delimiters instead of indentation.
- Support namespaces.
- Support references to other parts of the data; these aren't the same as making copies of the data, they are more like pointers.
- External datatype support by use of "host macros".
- Implementation in 35K (this is the size of a Windows executable including the library and a small example program, so the actual implementation is smaller).
- It is cleaner than XML.
Disadvantage:
- Numbers are limited to 64-bits.
- Some error checking is missing from the implementation.
- Implementation isn't quite completely tested.
- The format does not check the schema.
- Some people hate it.
- The computer will not understand what you mean if you try to use VT100 line drawing to enclose an object.
- It is difficult to put pictures in it.
- Less common.
{ What? No Links? Google turns up nothing. Is this someone's pet project or are they messing with us? }
[Looks questionable to me, and the stuff Donald found below is (at best) glancingly related. I suggest it be deleted as there's no useful content.]
It isn't on Google. A link is to: http://zzo38computer.org/textfile/miscellaneous/zcdsf.txt
These lists may be biased so please add more advantages/disadvantages/questions/complaints into the list so that it can hopefully be made perfectly clear and completed.
[A grammar and some examples would be very helpful.]
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checked out - found the following DoingStuff.
DonaldNoyes.20140619
- CDSF
- CGNS
- Structured, unstructured, and hybrid grids
- Flow solution data, which may be nodal, cell-centered, face-centered, or edge-centered
- Multizone interface connectivity, both abutting and overset
- Boundary conditions
- Flow equation descriptions
- equation of state, viscosity and thermal conductivity models
- turbulence models
- multi-species chemistry models
- electromagnetics
- Time-dependent flow
- including moving and deforming grids
- Dimensional units and nondimensionalization information
- Reference states
- Convergence history
- Association to CAD geometry definitions
- User-defined data
Unfortunately I do not understand these things very well. That's OK, though.
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