[Nexus] Names of linked items

[Pete Jemian]

I'll make the documentation of this cleater.
On Jul 4, 2015 12:38 PM, "Osborn, Raymond" <rosborn at anl.gov> wrote:

>  Hi Mark,
> Thanks for bringing me up to date. I’ve been living in the past, but the
> master branch of NeXpy now allows renamed links, so I’m catching up.
>
>  Ray
>
>  On Jul 4, 2015, at 2:55 AM, Koennecke Mark (PSI) <mark.koennecke at psi.ch>
> wrote:
>
> 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
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