[Nexus] Basic questions about application definitions

[Pete Jemian]

On 2/12/2015 10:39 AM, Andrew GOETZ wrote:
> A second question we had is that the way the application definitions are
> defined today implies they duplicate data in the file instead of linking
> to it.

"Implies" -- You are correct.

NeXus needs better documentation that describes how links can be used to 
reduce duplication (and size) in NeXus data files.  Only recently has 
any real documentation on links been added to the manual.

Created new issue:
"Documentation of links to be improved"
https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/issues/388

Pete

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