Hi Russ
>>>However, there are HDF5 files that netCDF-4 will not open and read, by design. See the answer to the FAQ How can I convert HDF5 files into netCDF-4 files?, which lists some HDF5 features netCDF-4 >>>>intentionally does not support
yes !
that was my impression debugging the code some years ago, netCDF was * intentionally * returning a failure on a pure HDF5 file
glad you pointed that document, I had missed that
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Pedro Vicente
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From: Russ Rew
To: Ed Hartnett
Cc: John Shalf ; cf-metadata at cgd.ucar.edu ; Discussion forum for the NeXus data format ; HDF Users Discussion List ; Richard.E.Ullman at nasa.gov ; Marinelli, Daniel J. (GSFC-5810) ; dmh at ucar.edu ; netcdfgroup at unidata.ucar.edu ; Miller, Mark C.
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Nexus] [netcdfgroup] [Hdf-forum] Detecting netCDF versus HDF5 -- PROPOSED SOLUTIONS --REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Ed Hartnett <edwardjameshartnett at gmail.com> wrote:
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The ability of netCDF-4 to open HDF5 files which were written by HDF5 is an important feature. It means that users can use tools that were written for netCDF on their existing HDF5 files.
However, there are HDF5 files that netCDF-4 will not open and read, by design. See the answer to the FAQ How can I convert HDF5 files into netCDF-4 files?, which lists some HDF5 features netCDF-4 intentionally does not support, primarily because these specific features seemed to be of dubious utility for little benefit.
NetCDF-4 supports a simpler data model than HDF5, and that was meant to be a feature, not a bug.
--Russ
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