H5Part development and discussion

[John Shalf <jshalf AT lbl.gov>]

I agree,
it sounds like it is time to have a subsection to the H5Part web  
pages that is entitled "Attribute Conventions."  This can be a  
running log of current or proposed naming conventions for attributes  
in the file format and their meaning (a data dictionary).

-john

On Jun 13, 2007, at 3:34 AM, John Biddiscombe wrote:
> Discussing standard attributes...
>
> I'd like to start the ball rolling by saying that we routinely use  
> an attribute attached to the time step group which is called  
> "TimeValue". This is a double precision value representing the  
> actual time for the step in question. I'd very much like this to be  
> documented somewhere as a 'convention' so that if and when others  
> have need of the time, they use the same method.
>
> JB
>
>  //
>  // Write out a TimeValue attribute for this step
>  //
>  h5part_int64_t attrib = H5PartWriteStepAttrib(
>    this->H5FileId, "TimeValue", H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE, &this- 
> >TimeValue, 1);
>
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