A Thursday 18 March 2010 17:40:10 Anton Kulchitsky escrigué: > Francesc, > > I think this is a really nice and elegant solution. Honestly, I am still > thinking of attributes as of simple strings. Now I see the advantage to > use other types. Thank you! > > I see just another problem with this though. Actually, what I really > want is attributes for the types, not the data! When attributes are > associated with data, this compound attribute need to be written every > time when I write data of this type. However, what I really need for > compound type are attributes of the type. Indeed, once fields are > described there is no need to repeat this every time I write the data > into a file.
I see, metainformation that complements other metainformation (in this case the data type). Oh well :-) -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
