Structure of .blend file

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Can anyone point me to the structure of a .blend file. I am looking into how I could parse or access data in it without Blender running. Am I thinking right about this?

Rob

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.blend is just a memory dump.

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This might interest you:
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Blender_Architecture.336.0.html
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Notes_on_SDNA.436.0.html
And probably other pages in that section.

Martin

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Thanks, Theeth, that helped. I remember someone talking about making the blend file into an xml file so that it could be parsed and worked with much easier.

Rob