[vtkusers] [Paraview] Does XDMF support wildcards?

[Renato N. Elias]

Unfortunately, not... I'm forwarding the reply I got from Jerry Clark 
whom confirmed me that XDMF does not support wildcards. My problem is 
similar with yours, a bunch of time steps producing heavy XDMF files 
where XML blocks are being repeated unnecessarily. Just a wildcard 
representing the name patterns would solve the problem.

Regards

Renato.

P.S.: I'm copying this message to the mail list since, I guess, it's an 
important (and simple in some sense) feature to be future implemented in 
XDMF.

Dan Lussier wrote:
> Hi Renato - have you had any luck in figuring out your question about 
> wildcards in XDMF?
>
> I was interested in a similar type of thing because I have a number of 
> heavy data from simulation timesteps that I would like to cover with a 
> single .xmf file if possible.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dan
>
> On 18-Jun-08, at 4:58 AM, Renato N. Elias wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Does anybody know if XDMF support wildcards? My intention is do 
>> something like:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>> <!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []>
>> <Xdmf xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" Version="2.0">
>>   <Domain>
>>      <Grid GridType="Collection" CollectionType="Temporal">
>>         <Grid Name="Test mesh" Type="Uniform">
>>
>>            <Time TimeType="List">
>>              <DataItem Format="XML" NumberType="Float" Dimensions="7">
>>            0.0 0.1 0.5 1.0 1.1 10.0 100.5
>>              </DataItem>
>>            </Time>
>>
>>            <Topology Type="Tetrahedron" NumberOfElements="   108104 " 
>> BaseOffset="1">
>>               <DataItem Dimensions="432416" NumberType="Int" 
>> Format="HDF">foo_[**].h5:/incid</DataItem>
>>            </Topology>
>>
>>            <Geometry Type="XYZ">
>>               <DataItem Dimensions="61767" NumberType="Float" 
>> Precision="8" Format="HDF">foo_[**].h5:/coords</DataItem>
>>            </Geometry>
>>
>>         </Grid>
>>
>>      </Grid>
>>   </Domain>
>> </Xdmf>
>>
>> The block above would load 7 files (corresponding to the time values 
>> listed) with name pattern foo_[**].h5, where [**] is the wildcard 
>> representing the file numbers (00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06). It's 
>> comparable with what Ensight case files use to represent name 
>> patterns. Maybe it could be done using functions, but I can't figure 
>> out how it's used with grids.
>>
>> Renato.
>>
>>
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