Hello Nan, et al.,
> Any of these special characters, other than the '_', would probably
> cause problems for code that deals with NetCDF files. The '.' is
> used in Matlab for access to structures, and the '@' is used to
> identify a variable as a function handle. There are work-arounds,
> but th
Hello Dennis
> It should be noted however that dot in particular
> causes problems for accessing remote datasets
> through DAP because the dot character is used
> in DAP constraints to specify fields inside
> DAP Sequences or Structures or Grids.
I'm afraid that I'm not familiar with DAP. Do you
Hi Dennis,
> With respect to netcdf (at least the C version), it is the
> case that these characters can appear
> unescaped: _.@+-
>
> It should be noted however that dot in particular causes
> problems for accessing remote datasets through DAP because
> the dot character is used in DAP cons
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
Hi Nan,
> I agree with Roy that CF should be the default namespace in a
> CF compliant file...
What does that mean?
Until we agree on the meaning and mechanism of namespace-handling within
CF-compliant files and software, I fear that such statements do not
provide much guidance at the practica
