Nomenclature#

This page documents the terms used in the documentation of the NeXus files written by spec2nexus.

symbolic

example

meaning

NAME:NXclass

data:NXdata

HDF5 name of group and NeXus base class used

{NAME}

scan_number

name is chosen as described

@{NAME}

@default

HDF5 attribute of the parent group or field [13]

NX_{datatype}

NX_NUMBER

uses this NeXus data type [14]

NX_{unittype}

NX_CHAR

uses this NeXus unit type [15]

/SCAN

/S1.1

name of the scan NXentry [4] group in the NeXus HDF5 file

Note

for reference: tree views

In this documentation, the command [16]:

punx tree FILENAME.hdf5

is used to generate a tree view of an HDF5 file’s structure.

NeXus base classes

References

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