[Nexus] Fwd: Re: [NeXus-tech] XML and new attribute

[Pete Jemian]

I agree with this suggestion.

On 2/13/2015 9:07 AM, Eugen Wintersberger wrote:
> One thing that we may should do is treat attributes more like fields (in
> particular since we want to support multidimensional attributes. In this
> case an attribute would look like this (I guess)
>
> <attribute name="vector" type="NX_FLOAT">
>    <dimensions rank="1">
>      <dim value="3" index="1"/>
>    </dimensions>
>    <enumeration>
>      <item><value>0 1 0</value></item>
>    </enumeration>
> </attribute>
>
> In this case we can restrict ourselves to a list of elements separated
> by blanks. As the rank is provided by the dimensions tag we do not need
> to embrace the value with [ and ].

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