[Nexus] Where to find up-to-date base classes definition (all_base.nxdl.xml)

Pete Jemian prjemian at gmail.com
Tue Mar 24 15:45:22 GMT 2015


The current definitions for NeXus base classes are available from the 
GitHub repository, master branch:

https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/tree/master/base_classes

You will find NXslit.nxdl.xml in that directory.

Pete



On 3/24/2015 10:09 AM, Christophe CLEVA wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am currently developing a tool based on NeXus classes definitions to
> manage the format of the HDF5 files used at the ESRF and I am struggling
> to get the up-to-date definitions from the nexusformat.org website:
>
> * from http://download.nexusformat.org/kits/definitions/ I can download
> only the NeXus definition (and manual) for version 3.1.0. From this
> archive I can extract everything I need including the all_base.nxdl.xml
> file I use directly.
>
> * from the documentation at
> http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/classes/index.html (which I
> guess is the last version, but there is no mention of the version
> anywhere) I see there is a NXslit base class
> (http://download.nexusformat.org/doc/html/classes/base_classes/NXslit.html).
>
>
> * but in the definition version 3.1.0 I downnloaded there is no NXslit
> base class ... so I guess this is not the same version than on the
> website ?
>
> My very simple question is: where can I download the NeXus definitions
> (in xml format) that correspond to the version on the website/the last
> released version ?
>
> Bonus question is where do I find the version of the definitions shown
> on the website ?
>
> Thanks in advance for a quick answer, I am stuck with the obsolete
> version 3.1.0 at the moment.
> (rebuilding from the source code is not an option for me here).
>
> This is not related, but while searching for the definitions I noticed
> that all links on the website for the distribution kits for version
> 4.3.1 lead to empty folders (http://download.nexusformat.org/kits/4.3.1/
> subfolders are all empty). I thought you might want to know.
>
> Best Regards,
> Christophe
>
>
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