[NeXus-code-tickets] [NeXusCode] #17: XML interface ignores length passed to NXmakedata for NX_CHAR arrays

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#17: XML interface ignores length passed to NXmakedata for NX_CHAR arrays
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  Reporter:  Freddie Akeroyd  |       Owner:  Mark Koennecke
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  major            |   Milestone:  NeXus 4.1     
 Component:  applications     |     Version:  4.0.0         
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                
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Changes (by Freddie Akeroyd):

  * version:  => 4.0.0

Comment:

 Mark, can you see an easy way to fix this? At the moment the array
 dimensions information for NX_CHAR is not stored anywhere during
 NXmakedata so NXputdata does not know how many characters to write. If we
 treated character nodes as custom nodes rather than opaque nodes during a
 write we could store this information in the node custom data section, but
 would doing this mess up other things?

 Freddie

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.nexusformat.org/code/ticket/17#comment:3>
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