[NeXus-committee] NXgroup: undocumented or inofficial?

[Pete Jemian]

Joachim:

On 7/8/2014 4:29 PM, j.wuttke wrote:
> Perhaps the name change and it's non-implementation at SNS are a fortunate
> coincidence we could use to codify their current use of "NXgroup"?

NXcollection was finalized at a plenary meeting of the NIAC in 2010. 
(http://wiki.nexusformat.org/images/2/24/Minutes_of_NeXus_Committee_2010.pdf) 
  The proposal for "NXmeasurement" resulted in "NXcollection".  I cannot 
find the mention of "NXgroup" in the minutes available online.  A Google 
search for "NeXus NXgroup base class" is unproductive for this topic. 
(It does identify that the NeXpy tree API uses a Python class with the 
NXgroup name.)

Minutes for the various meetings of the NIAC, where such decisions have 
been made are available online:
http://wiki.nexusformat.org/NIAC#Meetings

Pete


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