Re: [CF-metadata] Convention attribute

2012-01-02 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
Hi John, Guess we're on the same wavelength. 99% of usage of the conventions attribute string will be searches using functions like INSTR (function that locates a substring wihin a string), which make delimiters irrelevant but as Benno pointed out carry a (minimal if we're aware) element of ri

Re: [CF-metadata] Convention attribute

2012-01-02 Thread John Graybeal
I wasn't sure how to parse these, I'm a little slow today I guess. After trying a few ways, I decided they mostly use spaces to separate convention identifiers, and slashes to designate hierarchy. (Except the first two embed a space within "OceanSITES x.x", which I think should be a hyphen.)

Re: [CF-metadata] Proposal for better handling vector quantities in CF

2012-01-02 Thread Randy Horne
Folks: Depending on how loose we define vector in this context, this umbrella variable concept can achieve my objective where multiple data variables share the same quality flags. In the problem domain I am working, there are multiple related data variables in the same coordinate space for whi