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authorDana Robinson <43805+derobins@users.noreply.github.com>2021-10-06 05:37:12 (GMT)
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VFD SWMR: Normalization with develop (#1078)
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*
* Use the functions in this module to manage HDF5 attributes.
*
- * The Attribute Interface, H5A, provides a mechanism for attaching additional
- * information to a dataset, group, or named datatype.
- *
- * Attributes are accessed by opening the object that they are attached to and
- * are not independent objects. Typically an attribute is small in size and
- * contains user metadata about the object that it is attached to.
- *
- * Attributes look similar to HDF5 datasets in that they have a datatype and
- * dataspace. However, they do not support partial I/O operations and cannot be
- * compressed or extended.
+ * Like HDF5 datasets, HDF5 attributes are array variables which have an element
+ * datatype and a shape (dataspace). However, they perform a different function:
+ * Attributes decorate other HDF5 objects, and are typically used to
+ * represent application metadata. Unlike datasets, the HDF5 library does not
+ * support partial I/O operations for attributes and they cannot be compressed
+ * or extended.
*
* <table>
* <tr><th>Create</th><th>Read</th></tr>
* <tr valign="top">
* <td>
- * \snippet H5A_examples.c create
+ * \snippet{lineno} H5A_examples.c create
* </td>
* <td>
- * \snippet H5A_examples.c read
+ * \snippet{lineno} H5A_examples.c read
* </td>
* <tr><th>Update</th><th>Delete</th></tr>
* <tr valign="top">
* <td>
- * \snippet H5A_examples.c update
+ * \snippet{lineno} H5A_examples.c update
* </td>
* <td>
- * \snippet H5A_examples.c delete
+ * \snippet{lineno} H5A_examples.c delete
* </td>
* </tr>
* </table>