"Robert E. McGrath" <mcgrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Sure, you can make the reserved names anything you want, but I
> don't know any major use case where it will matter.
>
> It's not clear to me that users should ever be putting their own attributes
> on a dimension scale dataset. This is why I never worried about
> namespace issues.
In netCDF's use of dimscales, a coordinate variable is stored in HDF5
as a dimension scale.
In netCDF coordinate variables are treated just like other variable -
users can stick whatever attributes they want on there.
>
> I would note that the DS is consistent with the image and table
> specs. If you change one, you might want to change them all--with
> a corresponding higher effort.
Oh golly.
>
> If it were up to me, I'd put htis in as a feature request and think
> about it before doing it.
Dimscales hasn't been released yet, right?
>
> If you decide to change it, be sure to change the specification,
> bump the version number, and fix all the software that may
> use it, including the tools. Be sure that Peter knows this
> change is coming!
>
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Ed Hartnett -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
