tjn98 wrote:
Dear All,
I think there may be two distinct cases here:
1) Local cross-referencing, where it is only necessary to establish
a relationship within a well-defined grouping of files,
2) Referencing to a universal resource, such as a specific file
held on a server.
For the form
Dear all
Using metadata to describe a file internally is much more robust than encoding
filenames in a file, and therefore seems preferable to me. I am concerned that
the gridspec proposal suggests using relative filenames in an attribute in the
file (associate_files). If I understand correctly, t