[NeXus-committee] DECTRIS example summary

["V. Armando Solé"]

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.

>   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