2.1.3 Files and file formats

ImLib3D has it's own file format based on XML, it relies on libxml and libxml++. The class used for file accesses is ImLib3DFile. The files are not standard xml files. Unfortunatelly xml does not allow binary data. We wanted images to be contained in a single file, so our file format is made of a header in standard xml, and the rest of the file contains the binary data.