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The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important
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design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random
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access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive to
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allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle files
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of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings for
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individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for individual
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files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability to query the
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table of content's rich meta-data.
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