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<font face="Verdana">I want to verify the api support for variable
values in NcML.<br>
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Some background - we're looking at NcML as a potential cross-platform
format to exchange realtime data via Java/.Net messaging. We already
use NetCDF extensively in our organisation where we've conventionally
collected long periods of data at a single place, but the idea is that
we want to explore </font><font face="Verdana">a more modern
distributed realtime messaging architecture where
data volume in any single message is low, but delivery frequency and
schema
variability from different sources is high. In this way </font><font
face="Verdana">NcML could be used to represent measurement datums, say
one NcML message specifying a measurement timestamp from a remote
logging station contain the measurements of several instruments. NcML
also has the benefit of 1) facilitating downstream aggregation by
message consumers directly to NetCDF, 2) GML extension. We're using
Mule ESB (Java) to integrate this btw.<br>
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My question regards the support for variable "values". Support exists
in the xsd, but appears totally lacking in both the java api and
ncdump/ncgen utilities. Both the api javadoc and utilities man pages
explicity say that any generated NcML will not include values.<br>
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Can someone please clarify what is the status of supporting variable
values in NcML, and what is the roadmap for api inclusion?<br>
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Thanks, Nick<br>
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