[NeXus-committee] NXroot is required - or should be made so

[Mark Könnecke]

Hi,


Am 29.08.2014 um 16:44 schrieb Joachim Wuttke <j.wuttke at fz-juelich.de>:

> Starting point of this discussion was my remark on Figs 1-3
> in the manuscript.
> 
> I would like to propose a radical solution:
> 
> Omit NXroot from said figures.
> 
> Rationale:
> 
> The paper is not meant to reproduce the NeXus reference,
> but to provide a high-level overview.
> Therefore it's legitimate to omit technical detail.
> 

I second that. Replace NXroot by something saying root  of HDF-5 file.

Regards,

    Mark
 


> From Mark's
>> Well, well. Actually I do not mind the NXroot attribute. But I do not want a NXroot group appearing somewhere
>> in a HDF-5 NeXus file. It just belongs into a XML NeXus file. And I still think the documentation of NXroot is thus
>> misleading.
> I infer that NXroot is not essential enough to merit
> mention in the paper.
> 
> - Joachim
> 
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