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 -- David Hassell National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, PO Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB, U.K. Tel : 0118 3785613 Fax : 0118 3788316 E-mail: d.c.hass...@reading.ac.uk _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list CF-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
