[NeXus-committee] DECTRIS example summary

Mark Koennecke Mark.Koennecke at psi.ch
Mon Jan 14 14:39:51 GMT 2013


Hi,

On 01/14/2013 03:34 PM, "V. Armando Solé" wrote:
> On 14/01/2013 15:18, yayahjb wrote:
>> The one fussy disagreement I have with this summary would be on
>> signal=1.  I am not sure this matters, but I think the current rule 
>> is that
>> we are only supposed to have one dataset with "plottable" data, i.e.
>> with signal=1. If that rule is important, then I we probably should
>> ask for signal=2, signal=3, etc. on the second, third, etc. dataset.
>> I think this is actually consistent with an old NeXus rule when you had
>> multiple datasets.
>
> If each dataset is in its own NXdata group, all of them can have the 
> signal=1 attribute.
>
Right. In order to reduce confusion, shall I remove the second option, 
and ask for each
data to be in a NXdata?

Mark

>>   The alternatives would be to change the rule and
>> say either:
>>
>>   You can have multiple plotable datasets with signal=1 or
>>   The plotable datasets have signal=n, where n designates
>> the order of plotting, starting with 1.
>
> That is something I have been advocating for quite long always keeping 
> in mind that only makes sense when the datasets can share the same 
> axes. If I am not mistaken, we even discussed about it at last meeting.
>
> Armando
>
>
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