[Nexus] NXDL technical meetings – first topic: PR #1669

[Herbert J. Bernstein]

Dear Wout,
  I sm very interested in NXDL, but your survey wants my credit card
number  i would prefer not to provide that.
  Regards,
    herbert

On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 7:27 AM Wout De Nolf via NeXus
<nexus at shadow.nd.rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As the new NXDL Technical Manager, I would like to start technical meetings
> on NXDL, separate from the general NIAC meetings. They are open to anyone
> and might be especially interesting for people who:
>
> - develops tools that read the *.nxdl.xml files or nxdl.xsd directly, or
> - are invested in how NXDL evolves from a technical pov.
>
> The first topic is PR #1669:
> https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/pull/1669
>
> It does two things:
> - it declares, in NXDL itself, the attributes that every field and group
>   may have (@NX_class, @target, @units, ...);
> - it defines NeXus links by their content instead of as HDF5 hard links.
>
> If you would like to join, please fill in the Doodle:
>  https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/e5M9ywKe
>
> We will organise the rest on Zulip, so please join and reply there:
> https://nexusformat.zulipchat.com (channel #NXDL)
>
> Cheers,
> Wout De Nolf
>
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