[CF-metadata] Usage of the 'Conventions' attribute

From: David Hassell <d.c.hassell>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:30:42 +0000

Hello Nan,

> >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 a wide variety
> of observation types, so the attributes, like the variables, are
> fields in a Matlab structure; and Matlab uses the '.' for field access
> in structures. I can say wnde.standard_name = 'eastward_wind'
> but wnde.cf.standard_name would mean something different.

Sorry - I've been half asleep. I see your point about the dot
delimiter. It's also an annoyance in python.

All the best,

David

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