Thanks for the response everyone and thanks for the detailed response Ken. It made things a bit more clearer.
But still I dont understand that once I create a Hdf5 data, and even I create a XDMF file, how can I be sure which reader to use for the data? So every time I switch to a new data, chances are I might have to try out all the readers one by one, till one of them plots it fine? Is there something I am missing? Thanks, Pradeep 2012/12/21 Moreland, Kenneth <kmo...@sandia.gov> > Perhaps I'll elaborate on John's response a little bit. > > As John alluded to, Hdf5 is not really a file format in that it does not > specify any semantic meaning to the data. Hdf5 is just a storage > mechanism for arrays of data. It is self describing in that it provides > enough metadata to determine the basic data type, dimensions, name, > attributes, and hierarchical namespace, but this is not enough for any > reader to reliably build mesh structures from. For example, say there is > an array stored in an Hdf5 file called "pts". Is this a list of point > indices? Is this a collection of point coordinates that form a > curvilinear grid? A list of point coordinates around triangles? A bag of > point coordinates that will be indexed by some other array? Maybe pts > doesn't mean points at all. > > The relevance of this discussion is that simply providing the Hdf5 is not > sufficient to present data. The data has to follow some convention (or > have that convention otherwise specified). > > But not to worry. This question of reading Hdf5 files comes up a lot on > the ParaView mailing list and there exists a general solution: XDMF. XDMF > is a simple XML descriptor file that you place next to your h5 file. The > XDMF file describes what is called the schema for the data in the Hdf5 > file: That is, it defines the structure of the data. > > XDMF files can be created through the XDMF library or you can create the > XML file to describe an existing h5 file by hand. Based on the fact that > the generic NetCDF reader works (a coincidence whose technical details I > won't go into), I expect the describing XDMF file to be small and easy to > write. See the XDMF documentation at www.xdmf.org for more details. > > -Ken > > > > On 12/20/12 2:30 AM, "Biddiscombe, John A." <biddi...@cscs.ch> wrote: > > >Hdf5 is very flexible so one reader cannot cope with all possibilities. > >You need to know which hdf5 reader you need and target that format > > > >Sent from my Phone > >________________________________ > >From: Pradeep Jha > >Sent: 20/12/2012 08:33 > >To: paraview@paraview.org > >Subject: [Paraview] HDF5 and Paraview > > > >Hello, > > > >I dont understand something. In all of Paraview manuals it says that it > >is compatible with HDF5 file format. I am using Paraview 3.98. > >I wrote a data file using HDF for fortran and generated a file > >(filename.h5). But when I am tried to open it, "*.h5" was not in the list > >of supported > >file formats. > > > >Paraview gives me the message "A reader for filename.h5 could not be > >found. Please choose one: <followed by a long list of readers>". > >Even in that long list there are no HDF5 readers, so I just started > >trying everything and finally succeeded with "NetCDF files generic and > >CF conventions" (I don't even know what it is). > > > >But it is not reassuring. I don't know if this will work for any other > >data set. Am I missing something here? > > > >Thanks > >Pradeep > >_______________________________________________ > >Powered by www.kitware.com<http://www.kitware.com> > > > >Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > >http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > > >Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > >http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > > >Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > >http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > >_______________________________________________ > >Powered by www.kitware.com > > > >Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > >http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > > >Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > >http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > > >Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > >http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > > > >
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