[Nexus] Names of linked items

[Koennecke Mark (PSI)]

Hi,


> Am 04.07.2015 um 06:55 schrieb Herbert J. Bernstein <yayahjb at gmail.com>:
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
>  The Dectris HDF5/Nexus files use different names for their data links.
> 
>  Regards,
>    Herbert
> 

For a long time the links had to have the same names as the original object. But by decision of NIAC this was changed 
and added to NAPI. See NSmakenamedlink. I remember because I implement it

Best Regards,

      Mark K


> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Osborn, Raymond <rosborn at anl.gov> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> This is a question for the NeXus old-timers (Mark?). I received a request for NeXpy to allow links to have different names to their parent objects. I had assumed that the standard required that the linked parents and children have the same name, and all the examples in the documentation do, but there doesn’t seem to be a declared rule about it.
>> 
>> There is no problem implementing different names in NeXpy, which only writes HDF5 files, but my recollection was that HDF4 links had to have the same name because of the way objects were attached to Vgroups. Am I wrong about that? If I’m not wrong, does napi5.c care if the names are different?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ray
>> --
>> Ray Osborn, Senior Scientist
>> Materials Science Division
>> Argonne National Laboratory
>> Argonne, IL 60439, USA
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>> Email: ROsborn at anl.gov
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