Hi, Timothy!
The HDF Product Designer (HPD) can show generic chunking/compression
information in one GUI window:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pqaYbnnHII#t=25
Please pause at 30 second mark on the video to see it clearly.
HPD can generate code after your product design so you can populate many
real data products using the generated code.
I hope that HPD is something close to what you're looking for.
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:51 AM, Timothy Patterson <
Timothy.Patterson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> NcML and CDL are able to provide a human readable description of a
> particular instance of a product but are not designed to describe a more
> generic product format specification.
>
> The format specification would need to handle elements with values only
> known at runtime (dimensions, scaling and offset attributes, etc.), the
> NetCDF model used, the underlying storage layer, aspects of chunking and
> compression, etc. Basically everything you'd want to be able to construct
> NetCDF product instances.
>
> Having looked at a number of NetCDF format description documents, there
> doesn't seem to be a standard way of describing a NetCDF format
> specification. In general, the specification authors resort to either
> breaking the format into a tabulated description or using a
> modified/annotated NcML or CDL.
>
> Is there a preferred or standard way of describing NetCDF formats or has
> anybody looked at developing something like a standard XML product
> specification to do this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tim Patterson
>
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