XSIL (Extensible Scientific Interchange Language) is an

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-based transport language for scientific data, supporting the inclusion of both in-file data and

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. The language comes with an extensible

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model. The language's elementary objects include Param (arbitrary association between a

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and a value), Array, Table (a set of column headings followed by a set of records), and Stream, which enables one to either encapsulate

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inside the XSIL

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or point to an external data source. BFD is an XML dialect based on XSIL.

External links

XSIL: Extensible Scientific Interchange Language
XML-based standards Data modeling languages {{compu-lang-stub