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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi List,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For the past few weeks I have been focused on trying to understand the index file of MIRAX slides. The goal is to locate the slide positioning data in the v2.2 data format, which is not in the same place as the v1.9 MIRAX data. However, I was looking at the contents of some of the data files at my disposal, and I found that both the v1.9 data and the v2.2 data files contain blobbed xml data like this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><scaninfo>. <data>. <scaninfo XImagePos="8" YImagePos="115" XMotorPos="3006" YMotorPos="47110" ZMotorPos="1356" XMotorError="0" YMotorError="0" ZMotorError="0" ObjectLevel="0.0143" OpticalFocusLevel="-1" LaserFocusLevel="-1.0000" FocusingType="OptPartialRange" Neighbours="1:(26;132)" FocalPlane="(26;132)" ImageAcquisitionTime=" 4616.000 ms"/>. </data>.</scaninfo>.<scaninfo>. <data>. <scaninfo XImagePos="8" YImagePos="116" XMotorPos="3006" YMotorPos="47320" ZMotorPos="1356" XMotorError="0" YMotorError="0" ZMotorError="0" ObjectLevel="0.0000" OpticalFocusLevel="-1" LaserFocusLevel="-1.0000" FocusingType="OptPartialRange" Neighbours="1:(26;132)" FocalPlane="(26;132)" ImageAcquisitionTime=" 181.000 ms"/>. </data>.</scaninfo>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anybody have any idea what this data is and if there is any relation between this data and the so-called “slide position file”?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>