[NeXus-committee] again: data field ranks

[Mark Könnecke]

Hi,


Am 20.08.2014 um 09:40 schrieb j.wuttke <j.wuttke at fz-juelich.de>:

> Mark:
> 
> After you fixed "some wordings" in v9 of our manuscript,
> an entire paragraph of my invention has become invisible:
> 

On purpose. I sent a message about this but it may have been lost. 
The point is that if we adopt NeXus Interfaces at the next NIAC, then 
we will be far more specific about rank even in base classes. NeXus 
Interfaces have met with little resistance up to now. Which either means 
no one read my proposal or people agree…..

My point is that I would rather write nothing about rank then something which 
is already wrong at the time of publication.

May be this is a point to discuss at the next Telco….

Regards,

    Mark

> NeXus does not specify the *rank* of a data field.
> For many, but not all fields it is possible to infer from
> the field name or from an explicit annotation whether
> the field is a scalar or what its array dimensionality is.
> The character data type NXchar is almost always to be
> understood as string type.
> 
> This needs discussion, the more so since my related posting
>  http://lists.nexusformat.org/pipermail/nexus-committee/2014/000534.html
> has not yet been answered, private messages notwithstanding.
> 
> I will not insist on having the above paragraph or a
> corrected version thereof in the paper. But I need to
> know where we stand. Is my paragraph technically correct?
> 
> Best - Joachim
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