Re: [h5md-user] h5md group

[Peter Colberg]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:43:19PM +0200, Pierre de Buyl wrote:
> For now, the h5md group contains only attributes. This was meant to
> indicate the "metadata" nature of the fields found in there.
> 
> However, as it contains only these, we may consider moving them as
> datasets. It makes the rapid exploration of the files with h5ls
> easier.
> 
> This is just a question, not a push from my side.

Let's keep the attributes. That is their purpose, to store metadata.

I would consider h5ls broken then ;-).

To inspect HDF5 files, I use “h5dump -A …file…”. Note how, besides the
structure, this also prints the attribute data, but skips dataset data.
>From this tool's point of view, that makes attributes preferable to
datasets for metadata.

Peter