[NeXus-committee] NXroot is required - or should be made so

[Pete Jemian]

require that the attribute NX_class="NXroot" is assigned to the root of 
the HDF5 file

On 8/28/2014 11:20 AM, Osborn, Raymond wrote:
> I’m not sure I’m understanding this correspondence. NXroot is the root level of the HDF5 file. When you read in the file, it might have some meaning as the root of the file tree, but within the HDF5 file, it doesn’t exist as a separate entity, so what does it mean to ‘require’ it?
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> Ray
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> On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Pete Jemian <prjemian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> yes
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>> On 8/28/2014 10:50 AM, Joachim Wuttke wrote:
>>> Shouldn't the manuscript describe best practice as of now,
>>> regardless of compatibility issues?
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