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

WWW: http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/xar/