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Hi Ethan, On Tuesday 15 July 2008 19:56:17 Ethan Davis wrote:
Hi Dominic, all, Dominic Lowe wrote:I think perhaps there is a subtle difference in the CF case in that 'cf' in itself is not a media format. i.e. in the general case of "application/a+b" =A0my reading of the document suggests that both a and b must be data/media formats. So while xhtml and xml are both formats in there own right, cf is not - it is merely a convention for writing NetCDF. There's no such thing as a CF file, only netCDF files.
(Ethan wrote:)
In my mind the CF and netCDF relationship is very much like the XHTML (or GML or ...) and XML relationship. XHTML defines the XML tags and attributes that you can use to write XHTML. CF defines attributes and variables for use in a netCDF file.
You state "that you can use to write XHTML", whereas I note you don't say "can use to write CF" ;-) I think this is the distinction for me, there is no such thing as a .cf file format whereas you can have a ".xhtml" file. I fully understand your reasoning though - there are clear parallels between XHTML and CF. There are also differences and it just depends which perspective you take. At the end of the day I think either (+ or -) would be fine as long as our clients/dispatchers can handle it. But my preference is for "-" :-) Regards Dominic
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