Dear all
The existing Unidata recommendation is OK and we could incorporate it into
CF but it would help to be more precise, for instance: If the Conventions att
includes no commas, it is interpreted as a blank-separated list of conventions;
if it contains at least one comma, it is interpreted as
Hi all,
my opinion is to keep with the current recommendation, which better supports
automatic parsing and the existing conforming datasets.
In particular, I would avoid any parsing rule for the conventions attribute,
keeping its syntax as simple as possible (as Jonathan points out,
Thanks Russ, Dave(s), Jonathan and Lorenzo -
Thanks for the clarifications. I agree that it makes sense to
require that convention names not contain spaces, and that
it's easier (and more CF-like, hence better!) to parse space
separated terms.
Cheers - Nan
The recommendation on the Unidata
It is easier (not by much, code-wise) to not to allow commas as
delimiters, but if you want to allow for machine-recognition of
convention names, how are you going to handle conventions that have
spaces in their names? Telling everyone else to get rid of spaces isn't
a practical solution, and
On 12/22/2011 2:11 AM, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
Dear all
The existing Unidata recommendation is OK and we could incorporate it into
CF but it would help to be more precise, for instance: If the Conventions att
includes no commas, it is interpreted as a blank-separated list of conventions;
if it
Russ (and thus core netcdf) has always been explicit about space-delimited
conventions, so really there shouldn't be any conventions with spaces in
the names.
On the other hand, we have adopted the technique of using the convention
name as a pattern to match against the convention attribute, so
Dear all
This is certainly a lively thread! :-)
An array of strings would be nice but I don't think we should do that because
it's not compatible with the Unidata convention and it depends on the non-
classic netCDF model. In this case we can probably get by without it. While
we can't control
