[Nexus] NeXus 3.0.0

[Nick Maliszewskyj]

Greetings,

The technical committee is pleased to announce the official release of
version 3.0.0 of the NeXus API. Mark Koennecke has incorporated 
infrastructure permitting the use of XML as an additional data 
format in the same way that it is already possible to switch between 
HDF4 and HDF5. The same API calls will be used for all underlying 
formats so that their use will be transparent to the calling program.

The distribution now includes Peter Peterson's "nxtranslate" utility to
map data in existing files to NeXus format via XML "translation
files".  This application will aid developers to write NeXus reading
applications by converting real data in a facility-native format to
the NeXus standard.

In addition a <a href="http://nexus.isis.rl.ac.uk">bugzilla server</a>
has been established as a clearinghouse for bug reports and feature
requests.

Thank you for your attention.

Nick

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