Hello Nan, et al.,
Any of these special characters, other than the '_', would probably
cause problems for code that deals with NetCDF files. The '.' is
used in Matlab for access to structures, and the '@' is used to
identify a variable as a function handle. There are work-arounds,
but they
Hello Dennis
It should be noted however that dot in particular
causes problems for accessing remote datasets
through DAP because the dot character is used
in DAP constraints to specify fields inside
DAP Sequences or Structures or Grids.
I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with DAP. Do you mean
There is no interaction with the syntax of
the processing language, surely?
I checked to see if the Matlab NetCDF built-in routines would
allow attributes with dots in them, and they do; both global
and variable level atts can contain 'cf.'.
My code, though, has to be able to write files for
Hi Nan,
I agree with Roy that CF should be the default namespace in a
CF compliant file...
What does that mean?
Until we agree on the meaning and mechanism of namespace-handling within
CF-compliant files and software, I fear that such statements do not
provide much guidance at the
