[svn-r21953] HDDFV-7560: h5dump refactoring

Tested: local linux

10 files changed, 4157 insertions, 2747 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/tools/lib/CMakeLists.txt
index 2337985..a75596d 100644
--- a/tools/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tools/lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ SET (H5_TOOLS_LIB_SRCS
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5diff_dset.c
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5diff_util.c
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools.c
+    ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools_dump.c
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools_filters.c
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools_ref.c
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools_str.c
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ SET (H5_TOOLS_LIB_SRCS
 SET (H5_TOOLS_LIB_HDRS
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5trav.h
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools.h
+    ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools_dump.h
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools_utils.h
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools_str.h
     ${HDF5_TOOLS_LIB_SOURCE_DIR}/h5tools_ref.h
diff --git a/tools/lib/Makefile.am b/tools/lib/Makefile.am
index 43ee863..e364b47 100644
--- a/tools/lib/Makefile.am
+++ b/tools/lib/Makefile.am
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ INCLUDES=-I$(top_srcdir)/src
 # This is our main target, the h5tools library.
 noinst_LTLIBRARIES=libh5tools.la
 
-libh5tools_la_SOURCES=h5tools.c h5tools_str.c h5tools_utils.c h5diff.c \
+libh5tools_la_SOURCES=h5tools.c h5tools_dump.c h5tools_str.c h5tools_utils.c h5diff.c \
     h5diff_array.c h5diff_attr.c h5diff_dset.c h5diff_util.c h5trav.c  \
     h5tools_filters.c h5tools_ref.c h5tools_type.c
 
diff --git a/tools/lib/h5tools.c b/tools/lib/h5tools.c
index e963aea..fdc2e4d 100644
--- a/tools/lib/h5tools.c
+++ b/tools/lib/h5tools.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
 #include "h5tools.h"
+#include "h5tools_dump.h"
 #include "h5tools_ref.h"
 #include "h5tools_utils.h"
 #include "H5private.h"
@@ -38,223 +39,18 @@ hid_t H5tools_ERR_CLS_g = -1;
 hid_t H5E_tools_g = -1;
 hid_t H5E_tools_min_id_g = -1;
 int         compound_data;
-FILE       *rawdatastream; /* should initialize to stdout but gcc moans about it */
-int         bin_output;    /* binary output */
-int         bin_form;      /* binary form */
-int         region_output; /* region output */
-int         packed_bits_num; /* number of packed bits to display */
+FILE       *rawdatastream;      /* should initialize to stdout but gcc moans about it */
+int         bin_output;         /* binary output */
+int         bin_form;           /* binary form */
+int         region_output;      /* region output */
+int         oid_output;         /* oid output */
+int         data_output;        /* data output */
+int         attr_data_output;   /* attribute data output */
+int         packed_bits_num;    /* number of packed bits to display */
 int         packed_data_offset; /* offset of packed bits to display */
+int         packed_data_length; /* lengtht of packed bits to display */
 unsigned long long packed_data_mask;  /* mask in which packed bits to display */
 
-static h5tool_format_t h5tools_dataformat = {
-0, /*raw */
-
-"", /*fmt_raw */
-"%d", /*fmt_int */
-"%u", /*fmt_uint */
-#ifdef H5_VMS           
-"%hd",/*fmt_schar */
-#else   
-"%hhd",/*fmt_schar */   
-#endif  
-"%u", /*fmt_uchar */
-"%d", /*fmt_short */
-"%u", /*fmt_ushort */
-"%ld", /*fmt_long */
-"%lu", /*fmt_ulong */
-NULL, /*fmt_llong */
-NULL, /*fmt_ullong */
-"%g", /*fmt_double */
-"%g", /*fmt_float */
-
-0, /*ascii */
-0, /*str_locale */
-0, /*str_repeat */
-
-"[ ", /*arr_pre */
-",", /*arr_sep */
-" ]", /*arr_suf */
-1, /*arr_linebreak */
-
-"", /*cmpd_name */
-",\n", /*cmpd_sep */
-"{\n", /*cmpd_pre */
-"}", /*cmpd_suf */
-"\n", /*cmpd_end */
-
-", ", /*vlen_sep */
-"(", /*vlen_pre */
-")", /*vlen_suf */
-"", /*vlen_end */
-
-"%s", /*elmt_fmt */
-",", /*elmt_suf1 */
-" ", /*elmt_suf2 */
-
-"", /*idx_n_fmt */
-"", /*idx_sep */
-"", /*idx_fmt */
-
-80, /*line_ncols *//*standard default columns */
-0, /*line_per_line */
-"", /*line_pre */
-"%s", /*line_1st */
-"%s", /*line_cont */
-"", /*line_suf */
-"", /*line_sep */
-1, /*line_multi_new */
-"   ", /*line_indent */
-
-1, /*skip_first */
-
-1, /*obj_hidefileno */
-" "H5_PRINTF_HADDR_FMT, /*obj_format */
-
-1, /*dset_hidefileno */
-"DATASET %s ", /*dset_format */
-"%s", /*dset_blockformat_pre */
-"%s", /*dset_ptformat_pre */
-"%s", /*dset_ptformat */
-1, /*array indices */
-1 /*escape non printable characters */
-};
-
-static const h5tools_dump_header_t h5tools_standardformat = {
-"standardformat", /*name */
-"HDF5", /*fileebgin */
-"", /*fileend */
-SUPER_BLOCK, /*bootblockbegin */
-"", /*bootblockend */
-H5_TOOLS_GROUP, /*groupbegin */
-"", /*groupend */
-H5_TOOLS_DATASET, /*datasetbegin */
-"", /*datasetend */
-ATTRIBUTE, /*attributebegin */
-"", /*attributeend */
-H5_TOOLS_DATATYPE, /*datatypebegin */
-"", /*datatypeend */
-DATASPACE, /*dataspacebegin */
-"", /*dataspaceend */
-DATA, /*databegin */
-"", /*dataend */
-SOFTLINK, /*softlinkbegin */
-"", /*softlinkend */
-EXTLINK, /*extlinkbegin */
-"", /*extlinkend */
-UDLINK, /*udlinkbegin */
-"", /*udlinkend */
-SUBSET, /*subsettingbegin */
-"", /*subsettingend */
-START, /*startbegin */
-"", /*startend */
-STRIDE, /*stridebegin */
-"", /*strideend */
-COUNT, /*countbegin */
-"", /*countend */
-BLOCK, /*blockbegin */
-"", /*blockend */
-
-"{", /*fileblockbegin */
-"}", /*fileblockend */
-"{", /*bootblockblockbegin */
-"}", /*bootblockblockend */
-"{", /*groupblockbegin */
-"}", /*groupblockend */
-"{", /*datasetblockbegin */
-"}", /*datasetblockend */
-"{", /*attributeblockbegin */
-"}", /*attributeblockend */
-"", /*datatypeblockbegin */
-"", /*datatypeblockend */
-"", /*dataspaceblockbegin */
-"", /*dataspaceblockend */
-"{", /*datablockbegin */
-"}", /*datablockend */
-"{", /*softlinkblockbegin */
-"}", /*softlinkblockend */
-"{", /*extlinkblockbegin */
-"}", /*extlinkblockend */
-"{", /*udlinkblockbegin */
-"}", /*udlinkblockend */
-"{", /*strblockbegin */
-"}", /*strblockend */
-"{", /*enumblockbegin */
-"}", /*enumblockend */
-"{", /*structblockbegin */
-"}", /*structblockend */
-"{", /*vlenblockbegin */
-"}", /*vlenblockend */
-"{", /*subsettingblockbegin */
-"}", /*subsettingblockend */
-"(", /*startblockbegin */
-");", /*startblockend */
-"(", /*strideblockbegin */
-");", /*strideblockend */
-"(", /*countblockbegin */
-");", /*countblockend */
-"(", /*blockblockbegin */
-");", /*blockblockend */
-
-"", /*dataspacedescriptionbegin */
-"", /*dataspacedescriptionend */
-"(", /*dataspacedimbegin */
-")", /*dataspacedimend */
-};
-
-static const h5tools_dump_header_t * h5tools_dump_header_format;
-
-/* local prototypes */
-static int do_bin_output(FILE *stream, hid_t container, hsize_t nelmts, hid_t tid, void *_mem);
-static int render_bin_output(FILE *stream, hid_t container, hid_t tid, void *_mem);
-static int render_bin_output_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_id, FILE *stream,
-    hid_t container, int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t nblocks, hsize_t *ptdata);
-static hbool_t render_bin_output_region_blocks(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
-                         FILE *stream, hid_t container);
-static hbool_t render_bin_output_region_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
-                         FILE *stream, hid_t container);
-static hbool_t h5tools_is_zero(const void *_mem, size_t size);
-
-hbool_t h5tools_render_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
-                h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
-                h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
-                hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
-                size_t ncols, hsize_t local_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
-                hsize_t elmt_counter);
-
-hbool_t h5tools_render_region_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
-                h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
-                h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
-                hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
-                size_t ncols, hsize_t *ptdata,
-                hsize_t local_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
-                hsize_t elmt_counter);
-
-static int h5tools_print_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_id,
-        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *cur_ctx,
-        h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */, size_t ncols,
-        int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t nblocks, hsize_t *ptdata);
-
-hbool_t h5tools_dump_region_data_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
-                FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
-                h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
-                h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
-                hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
-                size_t ncols, hsize_t region_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
-                hsize_t elmt_counter);
-
-int h5tools_print_region_data_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
-        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *cur_ctx,
-        h5tools_str_t *buffer, size_t ncols,
-        int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t npoints, hsize_t *ptdata);
-
-hbool_t h5tools_dump_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
-                FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
-                h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
-                h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
-                hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
-                size_t ncols, hsize_t region_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
-                hsize_t elmt_counter);
-
 /* module-scoped variables */
 static int  h5tools_init_g;     /* if h5tools lib has been initialized */
 #ifdef H5_HAVE_PARALLEL
@@ -322,7 +118,7 @@ h5tools_init(void)
         if (!rawdatastream)
             rawdatastream = stdout;
 
-        h5tools_dump_header_format = &h5tools_standardformat;
+        h5tools_dump_init();
 
         h5tools_init_g++;
     }
@@ -617,7 +413,7 @@ done:
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
 static size_t
-h5tools_ncols(const char *s)
+h5tools_count_ncols(const char *s)
 {
     register size_t i;
 
@@ -743,7 +539,7 @@ done:
  *  level before)
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
-static void
+void
 h5tools_simple_prefix(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
                       h5tools_context_t *ctx, hsize_t elmtno, int secnum)
 {
@@ -832,7 +628,7 @@ h5tools_simple_prefix(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
  *      None
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
-static void
+void
 h5tools_region_simple_prefix(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
         h5tools_context_t *ctx, hsize_t elmtno, hsize_t *ptdata, int secnum)
 {
@@ -912,159 +708,6 @@ h5tools_region_simple_prefix(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Audience:    Public
  * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
- * Purpose:     Prints NELMTS data elements to output STREAM.
- * Description:
- *      Prints some (NELMTS) data elements to output STREAM. The elements are
- *      stored in _MEM as type TYPE and are printed according to the format
- *      described in INFO. The CTX struct contains context information shared
- *      between calls to this function. The FLAGS is a bit field that
- *      indicates whether the data supplied in this call falls at the
- *      beginning or end of the total data to be printed (START_OF_DATA and
- *      END_OF_DATA).
- * Return:
- *      None
- * Programmer:
- *      Robb Matzke, Monday, April 26, 1999
- * Modifications:
- *  Robb Matzke, 1999-06-04
- * The `container' argument is the optional dataset for reference types.
- *
- *  Robb Matzke, 1999-09-29
- * Understands the `per_line' property which indicates that every Nth
- * element should begin a new line.
- *
- *      Robb Matzke, LLNL, 2003-06-05
- *      Do not dereference the memory for a variable-length string here.
- *      Deref in h5tools_str_sprint() instead so recursive types are
- *      handled correctly.
- *
- *      Pedro Vicente Nunes, The HDF Group, 2005-10-19
- *        pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
- *        instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
- *        to print the array indices
- *        new field sm_pos in h5tools_context_t, the current stripmine element position
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-void
-h5tools_dump_simple_data(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t container,
-                         h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, unsigned flags,
-                         hsize_t nelmts, hid_t type, void *_mem)
-{
-    unsigned char *mem = (unsigned char*) _mem;
-    hsize_t        i;         /*element counter  */
-    size_t         size;      /*size of each datum  */
-    hid_t          region_space;
-    hid_t          region_id;
-    hbool_t        dimension_break = TRUE;
-    H5S_sel_type   region_type;
-    size_t         ncols = 80; /*available output width */
-    h5tools_str_t  buffer;    /*string into which to render */
-    hsize_t        curr_pos;  /* total data element position   */
-    hsize_t        elmt_counter = 0;/*counts the # elements printed.
-                                     *I (ptl?) needed something that
-                                     *isn't going to get reset when a new
-                                     *line is formed. I'm going to use
-                                     *this var to count elements and
-                                     *break after we see a number equal
-                                     *to the ctx->size_last_dim.   */
-
-    /* binary dump */
-    if (bin_output) {
-        do_bin_output(rawdatastream, container, nelmts, type, _mem);
-    } /* end if */
-    else {
-        /* setup */
-        HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
-        size = H5Tget_size(type);
-
-        if (info->line_ncols > 0)
-            ncols = info->line_ncols;
-
-        /* pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
-         * instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
-         * to print the array indices
-         */
-        curr_pos = ctx->sm_pos;
-
-        for (i = 0; i < nelmts; i++, ctx->cur_elmt++, elmt_counter++) {
-            void* memref = mem + i * size;
-            if (region_output && H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG)) {
-                char ref_name[1024];
-
-                /* region data */
-                region_id = H5Rdereference2(container, H5P_DEFAULT, H5R_DATASET_REGION, memref);
-                if (region_id >= 0) {
-                    region_space = H5Rget_region(container, H5R_DATASET_REGION, memref);
-                    if (region_space >= 0) {
-                        if (h5tools_is_zero(memref, H5Tget_size(type))) {
-                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "NULL");
-                        }
-                        else {
-                            if(H5Rget_name(region_id, H5R_DATASET_REGION, memref, (char*) ref_name, 1024)<0)
-                                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Rget_name failed");
-
-                            /* Render the region element begin */
-                            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
-
-                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, info->dset_format, ref_name);
-
-                            dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stdout, info,
-                                       ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, i, elmt_counter);
-
-                            region_type = H5Sget_select_type(region_space);
-                            if(region_type==H5S_SEL_POINTS)
-                                /* Print point information */
-                                dimension_break = h5tools_dump_region_data_points(
-                                                       region_space, region_id, stdout, info, ctx,
-                                                       &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, i, elmt_counter);
-                            else if(region_type==H5S_SEL_HYPERSLABS)
-                                /* Print block information */
-                                dimension_break = h5tools_dump_region_data_blocks(
-                                                       region_space, region_id, stdout, info, ctx,
-                                                       &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, i, elmt_counter);
-                            else
-                                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "invalid region type");
-                            /* Render the region element end */
-
-                        } /* end else to if (h5tools_is_zero(... */
-                        if(H5Sclose(region_space) < 0)
-                            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
-                    } /* end if (region_space >= 0) */
-                    else
-                        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Rget_region failed");
-                    if(H5Dclose(region_id) < 0)
-                        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dclose failed");
-
-                } /* if (region_id >= 0) */
-                else
-                    HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Rdereference2 failed");
-
-                ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-            } /* end if (region_output... */
-            else {
-                /* Render the data element begin*/
-                h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
-                h5tools_str_sprint(&buffer, info, container, type, memref, ctx);
-
-                if (i + 1 < nelmts || (flags & END_OF_DATA) == 0)
-                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", OPT(info->elmt_suf1, ","));
-
-                dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer,
-                                                           &curr_pos, ncols, i, elmt_counter);
-                /* Render the data element end*/
-
-            }
-            if(FALSE==dimension_break)
-                elmt_counter = 0;
-        } /* end for (i = 0; i < nelmts... */
-
-        h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
-    }/* else bin */
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Audience:    Public
- * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
  * Purpose:     Render an element to output STREAM.
  * Description:
  *      Prints the string buffer to the output STREAM. The string is
@@ -1105,7 +748,7 @@ h5tools_render_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
      * current location...
      */
     if (info->line_multi_new == 1 &&
-        (ctx->cur_column + h5tools_ncols(s) +
+        (ctx->cur_column + h5tools_count_ncols(s) +
          strlen(OPT(info->elmt_suf2, " ")) +
          strlen(OPT(info->line_suf, ""))) > ncols) {
         if (ctx->prev_multiline) {
@@ -1115,7 +758,7 @@ h5tools_render_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
              */
             ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
         }
-        else if ((ctx->prev_prefix_len + h5tools_ncols(s) +
+        else if ((ctx->prev_prefix_len + h5tools_count_ncols(s) +
                   strlen(OPT(info->elmt_suf2, " ")) +
                   strlen(OPT(info->line_suf, ""))) <= ncols) {
             /*
@@ -1150,7 +793,7 @@ h5tools_render_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
     if (info->line_multi_new == 1 &&
             ctx->prev_multiline &&
             (ctx->cur_column +
-            h5tools_ncols(s) +
+            h5tools_count_ncols(s) +
             strlen(OPT(info->elmt_suf2, " ")) +
             strlen(OPT(info->line_suf, ""))) > ncols)
         ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
@@ -1259,7 +902,7 @@ h5tools_render_region_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
      * current location...
      */
     if (info->line_multi_new == 1 &&
-            (ctx->cur_column + h5tools_ncols(s) +
+            (ctx->cur_column + h5tools_count_ncols(s) +
             strlen(OPT(info->elmt_suf2, " ")) +
             strlen(OPT(info->line_suf, ""))) > ncols) {
         if (ctx->prev_multiline) {
@@ -1269,7 +912,7 @@ h5tools_render_region_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
              */
             ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
         }
-        else if ((ctx->prev_prefix_len + h5tools_ncols(s) +
+        else if ((ctx->prev_prefix_len + h5tools_count_ncols(s) +
                 strlen(OPT(info->elmt_suf2, " ")) +
                 strlen(OPT(info->line_suf, ""))) <= ncols) {
             /*
@@ -1304,7 +947,7 @@ h5tools_render_region_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
     if (info->line_multi_new == 1 &&
             ctx->prev_multiline &&
             (ctx->cur_column +
-            h5tools_ncols(s) +
+            h5tools_count_ncols(s) +
             strlen(OPT(info->elmt_suf2, " ")) +
             strlen(OPT(info->line_suf, ""))) > ncols)
         ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
@@ -1372,2256 +1015,6 @@ h5tools_render_region_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
 }
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Audience:    Public
- * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
- * Purpose: Print the data values from a dataset referenced by region blocks.
- *
- * Description:
- *      This is a special case subfunction to print the data in a region reference of type blocks.
- *
- * Return:
- *      The function returns FAIL if there was an error, otherwise SUCEED
- *
- * Parameters Description:
- *      h5tools_str_t *buffer is the string into which to render
- *      size_t ncols
- *      int ndims is the number of dimensions of the region element
- *      hssize_t nblocks is the number of blocks in the region
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-static int
-h5tools_print_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_id,
-        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *cur_ctx,
-        h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */, size_t ncols,
-        int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t nblocks, hsize_t *ptdata)
-{
-    hbool_t      dimension_break = TRUE;
-    hsize_t     *dims1 = NULL;
-    hsize_t     *start = NULL;
-    hsize_t     *count = NULL;
-    size_t       numelem;
-    hsize_t      total_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];
-    hsize_t      elmtno; /* elemnt index  */
-    unsigned int region_flags; /* buffer extent flags */
-    hsize_t      curr_pos;
-    size_t       jndx;
-    int          indx;
-    int          type_size;
-    hid_t        mem_space = -1;
-    void        *region_buf = NULL;
-    hsize_t      blkndx;
-    hid_t        sid1 = -1;
-    int          ret_value = SUCCEED;
-    h5tools_context_t ctx;
-
-    assert(info);
-    assert(cur_ctx);
-    assert(buffer);
-    assert(ptdata);
-
-    memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
-    /* Get the dataspace of the dataset */
-    if((sid1 = H5Dget_space(region_id)) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dget_space failed");
-
-    /* Allocate space for the dimension array */
-    if((dims1 = (hsize_t *) HDmalloc(sizeof(hsize_t) * ndims)) == NULL)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for dims");
-
-    /* find the dimensions of each data space from the block coordinates */
-    numelem = 1;
-    for (jndx = 0; jndx < ndims; jndx++) {
-        dims1[jndx] = ptdata[jndx + ndims] - ptdata[jndx] + 1;
-        numelem = dims1[jndx] * numelem;
-    }
-
-    /* Create dataspace for reading buffer */
-    if((mem_space = H5Screate_simple(ndims, dims1, NULL)) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Screate_simple failed");
-
-    if((type_size = H5Tget_size(type_id)) == 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_size failed");
-
-    if((region_buf = HDmalloc(type_size * numelem)) == NULL)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate region buffer");
-
-    /* Select (x , x , ..., x ) x (y , y , ..., y ) hyperslab for reading memory dataset */
-    /*          1   2        n      1   2        n                                       */
-    if((start = (hsize_t *) HDmalloc(sizeof(hsize_t) * ndims)) == NULL)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for start");
-
-    if((count = (hsize_t *) HDmalloc(sizeof(hsize_t) * ndims)) == NULL)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for count");
-
-    curr_pos = 0;
-    ctx.indent_level = cur_ctx->indent_level;
-    ctx.cur_column = cur_ctx->cur_column;
-    ctx.prev_multiline = cur_ctx->prev_multiline;
-    ctx.ndims = ndims;
-    for (blkndx = 0; blkndx < nblocks; blkndx++) {
-        ctx.need_prefix = TRUE;
-        ctx.cur_elmt = 0;
-        for (indx = 0; indx < ndims; indx++) {
-            start[indx] = ptdata[indx + blkndx * ndims * 2];
-            count[indx] = dims1[indx];
-        }
-
-        if(H5Sselect_hyperslab(sid1, H5S_SELECT_SET, start, NULL, count, NULL) < 0)
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sselect_hyperslab failed");
-
-        if(H5Dread(region_id, type_id, mem_space, sid1, H5P_DEFAULT, region_buf) < 0)
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dread failed");
-
-        ctx.indent_level++;
-        if(H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(mem_space, total_size, NULL) < 0)
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_dims failed");
-
-        /* assume entire data space to be printed */
-        for (indx = 0; indx < (size_t) ctx.ndims; indx++)
-            ctx.p_min_idx[indx] = start[indx];
-        init_acc_pos(&ctx, total_size);
-
-        /* print the data */
-        region_flags = START_OF_DATA;
-        if (blkndx == nblocks - 1)
-            region_flags |= END_OF_DATA;
-
-        for (indx = 0; indx < (size_t)ctx.ndims; indx++)
-            ctx.p_max_idx[indx] = dims1[indx];
-
-        curr_pos = 0;
-        ctx.sm_pos = blkndx*2*ndims;
-        ctx.size_last_dim = dims1[ndims-1];
-
-        h5tools_region_simple_prefix(stream, info, &ctx, curr_pos, ptdata, 0);
-
-        elmtno = 0;
-        for (jndx = 0; jndx < numelem; jndx++, elmtno++, ctx.cur_elmt++) {
-            /* Render the region data element begin */
-            h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", jndx ? OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK "" : "");
-            h5tools_str_sprint(buffer, info, region_id, type_id,
-                                ((char*)region_buf + jndx * type_size), &ctx);
-
-            if (jndx + 1 < numelem || (region_flags & END_OF_DATA) == 0)
-                h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", OPT(info->elmt_suf1, ","));
-
-            dimension_break = h5tools_render_region_element(stream, info, &ctx, buffer, &curr_pos,
-                                                                    ncols, ptdata, jndx, elmtno);
-            /* Render the region data element end */
-
-            if(FALSE == dimension_break)
-                elmtno = 0;
-        } /* end for (jndx = 0; jndx < numelem; jndx++, region_elmtno++, ctx.cur_elmt++) */
-
-        ctx.indent_level--;
-    } /* end for (blkndx = 0; blkndx < nblocks; blkndx++) */
-
- done:
-    HDfree(start);
-    HDfree(count);
-    HDfree(region_buf);
-    HDfree(dims1);
-
-    if(H5Sclose(mem_space) < 0)
-        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
-    if(H5Sclose(sid1) < 0)
-        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
-
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Audience:    Public
- * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
- * Purpose: Print some values from a dataset referenced by region blocks.
- *
- * Description:
- *      This is a special case subfunction to dump a region reference using blocks.
- *
- * Return:
- *      The function returns False if the last dimension has been reached, otherwise True
- *
- * In/Out:
- *      h5tools_context_t *ctx
- *      hsize_t *curr_pos
- *
- * Parameters Description:
- *      h5tools_str_t *buffer is the string into which to render
- *      hsize_t curr_pos is the total data element position
- *      size_t ncols
- *      hsize_t region_elmt_counter is the region element loop counter
- *      hsize_t elmt_count is the data element loop counter
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-hbool_t
-h5tools_dump_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
-        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
-        h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
-        h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
-        hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
-        size_t ncols, hsize_t region_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
-        hsize_t elmt_counter)
-{
-    HERR_INIT(hbool_t, TRUE)
-    hbool_t      dimension_break = TRUE;
-    hssize_t     nblocks;
-    hsize_t      alloc_size;
-    hsize_t     *ptdata = NULL;
-    int          ndims;
-    hid_t        dtype;
-    hid_t        type_id;
-    int          i;
-
-    assert(info);
-    assert(ctx);
-    assert(buffer);
-
-    if((nblocks = H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks(region_space)) <= 0)
-        H5E_THROW(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks failed");
-
-    /* Print block information */
-    if((ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(region_space)) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims failed");
-
-    /* Render the region { element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "{");
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the region { element end */
-
-    /* Render the region datatype info and indices element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-    ctx->indent_level++;
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "REGION_TYPE BLOCK  ");
-
-    alloc_size = nblocks * ndims * 2 * sizeof(ptdata[0]);
-    assert(alloc_size == (hsize_t) ((size_t) alloc_size)); /*check for overflow*/
-    if((ptdata = (hsize_t*) malloc((size_t) alloc_size)) == NULL)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for ptdata");
-
-    H5_CHECK_OVERFLOW(nblocks, hssize_t, hsize_t);
-    if(H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist(region_space, (hsize_t) 0, (hsize_t) nblocks, ptdata) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Rget_select_hyper_blocklist failed");
-
-    for (i = 0; i < nblocks; i++) {
-        int j;
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, info->dset_blockformat_pre,
-                            i ? "," OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK " " : "", (unsigned long) i);
-
-        /* Start coordinates and opposite corner */
-        for (j = 0; j < ndims; j++)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s%lu", j ? "," : "(",
-                                (unsigned long) ptdata[i * 2 * ndims + j]);
-
-        for (j = 0; j < ndims; j++)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s%lu", j ? "," : ")-(",
-                                (unsigned long) ptdata[i * 2 * ndims + j + ndims]);
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, ")");
-    } /* end for (i = 0; i < nblocks; i++) */
-
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the region datatype info and indices element end */
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    if((dtype = H5Dget_type(region_id)) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dget_type failed");
-    if((type_id = H5Tget_native_type(dtype, H5T_DIR_DEFAULT)) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_native_type failed");
-
-    /* Render the datatype element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypebegin,
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockbegin);
-
-    h5tools_print_datatype(buffer, info, ctx, dtype);
-
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend)) {
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend);
-        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
-    }
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend);
-
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the datatype element end */
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    /* Render the dataspace element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacebegin);
-
-    h5tools_print_dataspace(buffer, region_space);
-
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend)) {
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend);
-        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
-    }
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend);
-
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the dataspace element end */
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    /* Render the databegin element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->databegin,
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockbegin);
-
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the databegin element end */
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    h5tools_print_region_data_blocks(region_id, rawdatastream, info, ctx,
-        buffer, ncols, ndims, type_id, nblocks, ptdata);
-
- done:
-    free(ptdata);
-
-    if(H5Tclose(type_id) < 0)
-        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-
-    if(H5Tclose(dtype) < 0)
-        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    /* Render the dataend element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->dataend,
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockend);
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos,
-                                                ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the dataend element end */
-
-    ctx->indent_level--;
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    /* Render the region } element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "}");
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos,
-                                                ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the region } element end */
-
-    H5_LEAVE(dimension_break)
-
- CATCH
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Audience:    Public
- * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
- * Purpose: Print the data values from a dataset referenced by region points.
- *
- * Description:
- *      This is a special case subfunction to print the data in a region reference of type points.
- *
- * Return:
- *      The function returns FAIL on error, otherwise SUCCEED
- *
- * Parameters Description:
- *      h5tools_str_t *buffer is the string into which to render
- *      size_t ncols
- *      int ndims is the number of dimensions of the region element
- *      hssize_t npoints is the number of points in the region
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-int
-h5tools_print_region_data_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
-        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *cur_ctx,
-        h5tools_str_t *buffer, size_t ncols,
-        int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t npoints, hsize_t *ptdata)
-{
-    hbool_t  dimension_break = TRUE;
-    hsize_t *dims1 = NULL;
-    hsize_t  elmtno; /* elemnt index  */
-    unsigned int region_flags; /* buffer extent flags */
-    hsize_t  curr_pos;
-    hsize_t  total_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];
-    int      indx;
-    size_t   jndx;
-    int      type_size;
-    hid_t    mem_space = -1;
-    void    *region_buf = NULL;
-    int      ret_value = SUCCEED;
-    h5tools_context_t ctx;
-
-    assert(info);
-    assert(cur_ctx);
-    assert(buffer);
-    assert(ptdata);
-
-    memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
-    /* Allocate space for the dimension array */
-    if((dims1 = (hsize_t *) HDmalloc(sizeof(hsize_t) * ndims)) == NULL)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for dims");
-
-    dims1[0] = npoints;
-    
-    /* Create dataspace for reading buffer */
-    if((mem_space = H5Screate_simple(1, dims1, NULL)) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Screate_simple failed");
-
-    if((type_size = H5Tget_size(type_id)) == 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_size failed");
-
-    if((region_buf = HDmalloc(type_size * npoints)) == NULL)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for region");
-
-    curr_pos = 0;
-    ctx.indent_level = cur_ctx->indent_level;
-    ctx.cur_column = cur_ctx->cur_column;
-    ctx.prev_multiline = cur_ctx->prev_multiline;
-    ctx.ndims = ndims;
-
-    if(H5Dread(region_id, type_id, mem_space, region_space, H5P_DEFAULT, region_buf) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dread failed");
-
-    elmtno = 0;
-    for (jndx = 0; jndx < npoints; jndx++, elmtno++) {
-        ctx.need_prefix = TRUE;
-        ctx.cur_elmt = 0;    /* points are always 0 */
-
-        ctx.indent_level++;
-        if(H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(mem_space, total_size, NULL) < 0)
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_dims failed");
-
-        /* assume entire data space to be printed */
-        for (indx = 0; indx < (size_t) ctx.ndims; indx++)
-            ctx.p_min_idx[indx] = 0;
-        init_acc_pos(&ctx, total_size);
-
-        /* print the data */
-        region_flags = START_OF_DATA;
-        if (jndx == npoints - 1)
-            region_flags |= END_OF_DATA;
-
-        for (indx = 0; indx < (size_t)ctx.ndims; indx++)
-            ctx.p_max_idx[indx] = cur_ctx->p_max_idx[indx];
-
-        ctx.sm_pos = jndx * ndims;
-        if (ctx.ndims > 0) {
-            ctx.size_last_dim = (int) (ctx.p_max_idx[ctx.ndims - 1]);
-        }
-        else
-            ctx.size_last_dim = 0;
-
-        curr_pos = 0;    /* points requires constant 0 */
-        h5tools_region_simple_prefix(stream, info, &ctx, curr_pos, ptdata, 0);
-
-        /* Render the point element begin */
-        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", jndx ? OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK "" : "");
-        h5tools_str_sprint(buffer, info, region_id, type_id,
-                               ((char*)region_buf + jndx * type_size), &ctx);
-
-        if (jndx + 1 < npoints || (region_flags & END_OF_DATA) == 0)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", OPT(info->elmt_suf1, ","));
-
-        dimension_break = h5tools_render_region_element(stream, info, &ctx, buffer, &curr_pos,
-                                                                ncols, ptdata, (hsize_t)0, elmtno);
-        /* Render the point element end */
-        if(FALSE == dimension_break)
-            elmtno = 0;
-
-        ctx.indent_level--;
-    } /* end for (jndx = 0; jndx < npoints; jndx++, elmtno++) */
-
- done:
-    HDfree(region_buf);
-    HDfree(dims1);
-
-    if(H5Sclose(mem_space) < 0)
-        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
-
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Audience:    Public
- * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
- * Purpose: Print some values from a dataset referenced by region points.
- *
- * Description:
- *      This is a special case subfunction to dump a region reference using points.
- *
- * Return:
- *      The function returns False if the last dimension has been reached, otherwise True
- *
- * In/Out:
- *      h5tools_context_t *ctx
- *      hsize_t *curr_pos
- *
- * Parameters Description:
- *      h5tools_str_t *buffer is the string into which to render
- *      hsize_t curr_pos is the total data element position
- *      size_t ncols
- *      hsize_t region_elmt_counter is the region element loop counter
- *      hsize_t elmt_count is the data element loop counter
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-hbool_t
-h5tools_dump_region_data_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
-        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx,
-        h5tools_str_t *buffer, hsize_t *curr_pos, size_t ncols, hsize_t region_elmt_counter,
-        hsize_t elmt_counter) {
-    HERR_INIT(hbool_t, TRUE)
-    hbool_t  dimension_break = TRUE;
-    hssize_t npoints;
-    hsize_t  alloc_size;
-    hsize_t *ptdata;
-    int      ndims;
-    hssize_t indx;
-    hid_t    dtype;
-    hid_t    type_id;
-
-    assert(info);
-    assert(ctx);
-    assert(buffer);
-
-    if((npoints = H5Sget_select_elem_npoints(region_space)) <= 0)
-        H5E_THROW(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_elem_npoints failed");
-
-    /* Allocate space for the dimension array */
-    if((ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(region_space)) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims failed");
-
-    /* Render the region { element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "{");
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the region { element end */
-
-    /* Render the region datatype info and indices element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-    ctx->indent_level++;
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "REGION_TYPE POINT  ");
-
-    alloc_size = npoints * ndims * sizeof(ptdata[0]);
-    assert(alloc_size == (hsize_t) ((size_t) alloc_size)); /*check for overflow*/
-    if(NULL == (ptdata = (hsize_t *)HDmalloc((size_t) alloc_size)))
-        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for ptdata");
-
-    H5_CHECK_OVERFLOW(npoints, hssize_t, hsize_t);
-    if(H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist(region_space, (hsize_t) 0, (hsize_t) npoints, ptdata) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist failed");
-
-    for (indx = 0; indx < npoints; indx++) {
-        int loop_indx;
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, info->dset_ptformat_pre,
-                            indx ? "," OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK " " : "", (unsigned long) indx);
-
-        for (loop_indx = 0; loop_indx < ndims; loop_indx++)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s%lu", loop_indx ? "," : "(",
-                                (unsigned long) (ptdata[indx * ndims + loop_indx]));
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, ")");
-    } /* end for (indx = 0; indx < npoints; indx++) */
-
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the region datatype info and indices element end */
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    if((dtype = H5Dget_type(region_id)) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dget_type failed");
-
-    if((type_id = H5Tget_native_type(dtype, H5T_DIR_DEFAULT)) < 0)
-        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_native_type failed");
-
-    /* Render the datatype element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypebegin,
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockbegin);
-
-    h5tools_print_datatype(buffer, info, ctx, dtype);
-
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend)) {
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend);
-        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
-    }
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend);
-
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the datatype element end */
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    /* Render the dataspace element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacebegin);
-
-    h5tools_print_dataspace(buffer, region_space);
-
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend)) {
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend);
-        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
-    }
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend);
-
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the dataspace element end */
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    /* Render the databegin element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->databegin,
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockbegin);
-
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the databegin element end */
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    h5tools_print_region_data_points(region_space, region_id,
-            rawdatastream, info, ctx, buffer, ncols, ndims, type_id, npoints, ptdata);
-
- done:
-    free(ptdata);
-
-    if(H5Tclose(type_id) < 0)
-        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-
-    if(H5Tclose(dtype) < 0)
-        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    /* Render the dataend element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->dataend,
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockend);
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos,
-                                              ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the dataend element end*/
-
-    ctx->indent_level--;
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-
-    /* Render the region } element begin */
-    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
-    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "}");
-    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos,
-                                                ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
-    /* Render the region } element end */
-
-    H5_LEAVE(dimension_break)
-CATCH
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Audience:    Public
- * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
- * Purpose:     print out the data for a subset of a dataset.
- * Description:
- *
- *  Select a hyperslab from the dataset DSET using the parameters
- *   specified in SSET. Dump this out to STREAM.
- *
- *  Hyperslabs select "count" blocks of size "block", spaced "stride" elements
- *   from each other, starting at coordinate "start".
- *
- * Return:
- *      On success, return SUCCEED. Otherwise, the function returns FAIL.
- *
- * Algorithm
- *
- * The parameters from SSET are translated into temporary
- * variables so that 1 row is printed at a time (getting the coordinate indices
- * at each row).
- * We define the stride, count and block to be 1 in the row dimension to achieve
- * this and advance until all points are printed.
- *
- * The element position is obtained from the matrix according to:
- *       Given an index I(z,y,x) its position from the beginning of an array
- *       of sizes A(size_z, size_y,size_x) is given by
- *       Position of I(z,y,x) = index_z * size_y * size_x
- *                             + index_y * size_x
- *                             + index_x
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-static herr_t
-h5tools_print_simple_subset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx,
-                           hid_t dset, hid_t p_type, struct subset_t *sset,
-                           hid_t f_space, hsize_t hyperslab_count,
-                           hsize_t *temp_start,/* start inside offset count loop */
-                           hsize_t *temp_count,/* count inside offset count loop  */
-                           hsize_t *temp_block,/* block size used in loop  */
-                           hsize_t *temp_stride,/* stride size used in loop  */
-                           hsize_t *total_size,/* total size of dataset */
-                           unsigned int row_dim/* index of row_counter dimension */)
-{
-    HERR_INIT(herr_t, SUCCEED)
-    size_t            i;                       /* counters  */
-    size_t            j;                       /* counters  */
-    hsize_t           zero[1] = {0};           /* vector of zeros */
-    unsigned int      flags;                   /* buffer extent flags */
-    hsize_t           elmtno;                  /* elemnt index  */
-    hsize_t           low[H5S_MAX_RANK];       /* low bound of hyperslab */
-    hsize_t           high[H5S_MAX_RANK];      /* higher bound of hyperslab */
-    size_t            p_type_nbytes;           /* size of memory type */
-    hsize_t           sm_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];   /* stripmine size */
-    hsize_t           sm_nbytes;               /* bytes per stripmine */
-    hssize_t          ssm_nelmts;              /* elements per stripmine*/
-    hsize_t           sm_nelmts;               /* elements per stripmine*/
-    unsigned char    *sm_buf = NULL;           /* buffer for raw data */
-    hid_t             sm_space = -1;           /* stripmine data space */
-    hsize_t           size_row_block;          /* size for blocks along rows */
-    hsize_t           row_counter = 0;
-
-    /* VL data special information */
-    unsigned int        vl_data = 0; /* contains VL datatypes */
-
-    if ((size_t) ctx->ndims > NELMTS(sm_size))
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "ndims and sm_size comparision failed");
-
-    if (ctx->ndims > 0)
-        init_acc_pos(ctx, total_size);
-
-    size_row_block = sset->block.data[row_dim];
-
-    /* Check if we have VL data in the dataset's datatype */
-    if (h5tools_detect_vlen_str(p_type) == TRUE)
-        vl_data = TRUE;
-    if (H5Tdetect_class(p_type, H5T_VLEN) == TRUE)
-        vl_data = TRUE;
-
-    /* display loop */
-    for (; hyperslab_count > 0; temp_start[row_dim] += temp_stride[row_dim], hyperslab_count--) {
-        /* jump rows if size of block exceeded
-         cases where block > 1 only and stride > block */
-        if (size_row_block > 1
-                && row_counter == size_row_block
-                && sset->stride.data[row_dim] > sset->block.data[row_dim]) {
-
-            hsize_t increase_rows = sset->stride.data[row_dim] - sset->block.data[row_dim];
-            temp_start[row_dim] += increase_rows;
-            row_counter = 0;
-        }
-
-        row_counter++;
-
-        /* calculate the potential number of elements we're going to print */
-        if(H5Sselect_hyperslab(f_space, H5S_SELECT_SET, temp_start, temp_stride, temp_count, temp_block) < 0)
-            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sselect_hyperslab failed");
-
-        if((ssm_nelmts = H5Sget_select_npoints(f_space)) < 0)
-            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_npoints failed");
-        sm_nelmts = (hsize_t)ssm_nelmts;
-
-        if (sm_nelmts > 0) {
-            /*
-             * determine the strip mine size and allocate a buffer. the strip mine is
-             * a hyperslab whose size is manageable.
-             */
-            if((sm_nbytes = p_type_nbytes = H5Tget_size(p_type)) == 0)
-                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_size failed");
-
-            if (ctx->ndims > 0)
-                for (i = ctx->ndims; i > 0; --i) {
-                    hsize_t size = H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE / sm_nbytes;
-                    if (size == 0) /* datum size > H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE */
-                        size = 1;
-                    sm_size[i - 1] = MIN(total_size[i - 1], size);
-                    sm_nbytes *= sm_size[i - 1];
-                    assert(sm_nbytes > 0);
-                }
-
-            assert(sm_nbytes == (hsize_t) ((size_t) sm_nbytes)); /*check for overflow*/
-            if(NULL == (sm_buf = (unsigned char *)HDmalloc((size_t) sm_nelmts * p_type_nbytes)))
-                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for strip-mine");
-
-            if((sm_space = H5Screate_simple(1, &sm_nelmts, NULL)) < 0)
-                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Screate_simple failed");
-
-            if(H5Sselect_hyperslab(sm_space, H5S_SELECT_SET, zero, NULL, &sm_nelmts, NULL) < 0)
-                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sselect_hyperslab failed");
-
-            /* read the data */
-            if(H5Dread(dset, p_type, sm_space, f_space, H5P_DEFAULT, sm_buf) < 0)
-                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dread failed");
-
-            /* print the data */
-            flags = START_OF_DATA;
-
-            if (hyperslab_count == 1)
-                flags |= END_OF_DATA;
-
-            for (i = 0; i < ctx->ndims; i++)
-                ctx->p_max_idx[i] = ctx->p_min_idx[i] + MIN(total_size[i], sm_size[i]);
-
-            /* print array indices. get the lower bound of the hyperslab and calulate
-             the element position at the start of hyperslab */
-            if(H5Sget_select_bounds(f_space, low, high) < 0)
-                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_bounds failed");
-
-            elmtno = 0;
-            for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx->ndims - 1; i++) {
-                hsize_t offset = 1; /* accumulation of the previous dimensions */
-                for (j = i + 1; j < (size_t) ctx->ndims; j++)
-                    offset *= total_size[j];
-                elmtno += low[i] * offset;
-            }
-            elmtno += low[ctx->ndims - 1];
-
-            /* initialize the current stripmine position; this is necessary to print the array
-             indices */
-            ctx->sm_pos = elmtno;
-
-            h5tools_dump_simple_data(stream, info, dset, ctx, flags, sm_nelmts, p_type, sm_buf);
-
-            /* Reclaim any VL memory, if necessary */
-            if (vl_data)
-                H5Dvlen_reclaim(p_type, sm_space, H5P_DEFAULT, sm_buf);
-
-            if(H5Sclose(sm_space) < 0)
-                H5E_THROW(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
-            if(sm_buf)
-                HDfree(sm_buf);
-            sm_buf = NULL;
-        }
-        else
-            H5E_THROW(SUCCEED, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "nothing to print");
-        /* we need to jump to next line and update the index */
-        ctx->need_prefix = 1;
-
-        ctx->continuation++;
-
-    } /* hyperslab_count loop */
-
-CATCH
-    if(sm_buf)
-        HDfree(sm_buf);
-
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Audience:    Public
- * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
- * Purpose:     print out the data for a subset of a dataset.
- * Description:
- *
- *  Select a hyperslab from the dataset DSET using the parameters
- *   specified in SSET. Dump this out to STREAM.
- *
- *  Hyperslabs select "count" blocks of size "block", spaced "stride" elements
- *   from each other, starting at coordinate "start".
- *
- * Return:
- *      On success, return SUCCEED. Otherwise, the function returns FAIL.
- *
- * Algorithm
- *
- * The parameters from SSET are translated into temporary
- * variables so that 1 row is printed at a time (getting the coordinate indices
- * at each row).
- * We define the stride, count and block to be 1 in the row dimension to achieve
- * this and advance until all points are printed.
- *
- * The element position is obtained from the matrix according to:
- *       Given an index I(z,y,x) its position from the beginning of an array
- *       of sizes A(size_z, size_y,size_x) is given by
- *       Position of I(z,y,x) = index_z * size_y * size_x
- *                             + index_y * size_x
- *                             + index_x
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-static herr_t
-h5tools_display_simple_subset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx,
-                           hid_t dset, hid_t p_type, struct subset_t *sset,
-                           hid_t f_space, hsize_t *total_size)
-{
-    size_t            i;                       /* counters  */
-    hsize_t           n;                       /* counters  */
-    hsize_t           count;                   /* hyperslab count */
-    hsize_t           outer_count;             /* offset count */
-    unsigned int      row_dim;                 /* index of row_counter dimension */
-    int               current_outer_dim;       /* dimension for start */
-    hsize_t           temp_start[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* temporary start inside offset count loop */
-    hsize_t           max_start[H5S_MAX_RANK]; /* maximum start inside offset count loop */
-    hsize_t           temp_count[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* temporary count inside offset count loop  */
-    hsize_t           temp_block[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* temporary block size used in loop  */
-    hsize_t           temp_stride[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* temporary stride size used in loop  */
-    int               reset_dim;
-    herr_t            ret_value = SUCCEED;
-
-    if (ctx->ndims == 1)
-        row_dim = 0;
-    else
-        row_dim = ctx->ndims - 2;
-
-    /* get the offset count */
-    outer_count = 1;
-    if (ctx->ndims > 2)
-        for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx->ndims - 2; i++) {
-            /* block size is handled by containing h5tools_print_simple_subset call */
-            outer_count = outer_count * sset->count.data[i];
-
-        }
-
-    /* initialize temporary start, count and maximum start */
-    for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx->ndims; i++) {
-        temp_start[i] = sset->start.data[i];
-        temp_count[i] = sset->count.data[i];
-        temp_block[i] = sset->block.data[i];
-        temp_stride[i] = sset->stride.data[i];
-        max_start[i] = 0;
-    }
-
-    if (ctx->ndims > 2) {
-        for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx->ndims - 2; i++) {
-            max_start[i] = temp_start[i] + sset->count.data[i];
-            temp_count[i] = 1;
-
-        }
-    }
-
-    /* offset loop */
-    for (n = 0; n < outer_count; n++) {
-        /* number of read iterations in inner loop, read by rows, to match 2D display */
-        if (ctx->ndims > 1) {
-
-            /* count is the number of iterations to display all the rows,
-             the block size count times */
-            count = sset->count.data[row_dim] * sset->block.data[row_dim];
-
-            /* always 1 row_counter at a time, that is a block of size 1, 1 time */
-            temp_count[row_dim] = 1;
-            temp_block[row_dim] = 1;
-
-            /* advance 1 row_counter at a time  */
-            if (sset->block.data[row_dim] > 1)
-                temp_stride[row_dim] = 1;
-
-        }
-        /* for the 1D case */
-        else {
-            count = 1;
-        }
-
-        h5tools_print_simple_subset(stream, info, ctx, dset, p_type, sset,
-                                   f_space, count, temp_start, temp_count,
-                                   temp_block, temp_stride, total_size, row_dim);
-
-        if (ctx->ndims > 2) {
-            /* dimension for start */
-            current_outer_dim = (ctx->ndims - 2) - 1;
-
-            /* set start to original from current_outer_dim up */
-            for (i = current_outer_dim + 1; i < ctx->ndims; i++) {
-                temp_start[i] = sset->start.data[i];
-            }
-
-            /* increment start dimension */
-            do {
-                reset_dim = 0;
-                temp_start[current_outer_dim]++;
-                if (temp_start[current_outer_dim] >= max_start[current_outer_dim]) {
-                    temp_start[current_outer_dim] = sset->start.data[current_outer_dim];
-
-                    /* consider block */
-                    if (sset->block.data[current_outer_dim] > 1)
-                        temp_start[current_outer_dim]++;
-
-                    current_outer_dim--;
-                    reset_dim = 1;
-                }
-            } while (current_outer_dim >= 0 && reset_dim);
-
-        } /* ctx.ndims > 1 */
-
-    } /* outer_count */
-
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Audience:    Public
- * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
- * Purpose:     Dump out a subset of a dataset.
- * Description:
- *
- *  Select a hyperslab from the dataset DSET using the parameters
- *   specified in SSET. Dump this out to STREAM.
- *
- *  Hyperslabs select "count" blocks of size "block", spaced "stride" elements
- *   from each other, starting at coordinate "start".
- *
- * Return:
- *      On success, return SUCCEED. Otherwise, the function returns FAIL.
- *
- * Original programmer:
- *      Bill Wendling, Wednesday, March 07, 2001
- *
- * Rewritten with modified algorithm by:
- *      Pedro Vicente, Wednesday, January 16, 2008, contributions from Quincey Koziol
- *
- * Algorithm
- *
- * In a inner loop, the parameters from SSET are translated into temporary
- * variables so that 1 row is printed at a time (getting the coordinate indices
- * at each row).
- * We define the stride, count and block to be 1 in the row dimension to achieve
- * this and advance until all points are printed.
- * An outer loop for cases where dimensionality is greater than 2D is made.
- * In each iteration, the 2D block is displayed in the inner loop. The remaining
- * slower dimensions above the first 2 are incremented one at a time in the outer loop
- *
- * The element position is obtained from the matrix according to:
- *       Given an index I(z,y,x) its position from the beginning of an array
- *       of sizes A(size_z, size_y,size_x) is given by
- *       Position of I(z,y,x) = index_z * size_y * size_x
- *                             + index_y * size_x
- *                             + index_x
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-static herr_t
-h5tools_dump_simple_subset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t dset,
-                           hid_t p_type, struct subset_t *sset, int indentlevel)
-{
-    HERR_INIT(herr_t, SUCCEED)
-    int               sndims;
-    hid_t             f_space = -1;            /* file data space */
-    size_t            i;                       /* counters  */
-    hsize_t           total_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* total size of dataset*/
-    h5tools_context_t ctx;                     /* print context  */
-
-    if((f_space = H5Dget_space(dset)) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dget_space failed");
-
-    /*
-     * check that everything looks okay. the dimensionality must not be too
-     * great and the dimensionality of the items selected for printing must
-     * match the dimensionality of the dataset.
-     */
-    memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
-    ctx.indent_level = indentlevel;
-    ctx.need_prefix = 1;
-    if((sndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(f_space)) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims failed");
-    ctx.ndims = (unsigned)sndims;
-
-    /* assume entire data space to be printed */
-    if (ctx.ndims > 0)
-        for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx.ndims; i++)
-            ctx.p_min_idx[i] = 0;
-
-    if(H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(f_space, total_size, NULL) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_dims failed");
-    ctx.size_last_dim = total_size[ctx.ndims - 1];
-
-    h5tools_display_simple_subset(stream, info, &ctx, dset, p_type, sset, f_space, total_size);
-
-    /* Terminate the output */
-    if (ctx.cur_column) {
-        fputs(OPT(info->line_suf, ""), stdout);
-        putc('\n', stdout);
-        fputs(OPT(info->line_sep, ""), stdout);
-    }
-
-CATCH
-    if(f_space >= 0 && H5Sclose(f_space) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
-
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Audience:    Public
- * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
- * Purpose: Print some values from a dataset with a simple data space.
- * Description:
- *      This is a special case of h5tools_dump_dset(). This function only
- *      intended for dumping datasets -- it does strip mining and some other
- *      things which are unnecessary for smaller objects such as attributes
- *      (to print small objects like attributes simply read the attribute and
- *      call h5tools_dump_simple_mem()).
- * Return:
- *      On success, the function returns SUCCEED. Otherwise, the function
- *      returns FAIL.
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-static int
-h5tools_dump_simple_dset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
-                         hid_t dset, hid_t p_type, int indentlevel)
-{
-    hid_t               f_space;                  /* file data space */
-    hsize_t             elmtno;                   /* counter  */
-    size_t              i;                        /* counter  */
-    int                 carry;                    /* counter carry value */
-    hsize_t             zero[8];                  /* vector of zeros */
-    unsigned int        flags;                    /* buffer extent flags */
-    hsize_t             total_size[H5S_MAX_RANK]; /* total size of dataset*/
-
-    /* Print info */
-    h5tools_context_t   ctx;                      /* print context  */
-    size_t              p_type_nbytes;            /* size of memory type */
-    hsize_t             p_nelmts;                 /* total selected elmts */
-
-    /* Stripmine info */
-    hsize_t             sm_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];    /* stripmine size */
-    hsize_t             sm_nbytes;                /* bytes per stripmine */
-    hsize_t             sm_nelmts;                /* elements per stripmine*/
-    unsigned char      *sm_buf = NULL;            /* buffer for raw data */
-    hid_t               sm_space;                 /* stripmine data space */
-
-    /* Hyperslab info */
-    hsize_t             hs_offset[H5S_MAX_RANK];  /* starting offset */
-    hsize_t             hs_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];    /* size this pass */
-    hsize_t             hs_nelmts;                /* elements in request */
-
-    /* VL data special information */
-    unsigned int        vl_data = 0; /* contains VL datatypes */
-
-    f_space = H5Dget_space(dset);
-
-    if (f_space == FAIL)
-        return FAIL;
-
-    /*
-     * Check that everything looks okay. The dimensionality must not be too
-     * great and the dimensionality of the items selected for printing must
-     * match the dimensionality of the dataset.
-     */
-    memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
-    ctx.ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(f_space);
-
-    if ((size_t)ctx.ndims > NELMTS(sm_size)) {
-        H5Sclose(f_space);
-        return FAIL;
-    }
-
-    ctx.indent_level = indentlevel;
-    ctx.need_prefix = 1;
-
-    /* Assume entire data space to be printed */
-    if (ctx.ndims > 0)
-        for (i = 0; i < (size_t)ctx.ndims; i++)
-            ctx.p_min_idx[i] = 0;
-
-    H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(f_space, total_size, NULL);
-
-    /* calculate the number of elements we're going to print */
-    p_nelmts = 1;
-
-    if (ctx.ndims > 0) {
-        for (i = 0; i < ctx.ndims; i++)
-            p_nelmts *= total_size[i];
-        ctx.size_last_dim = (total_size[ctx.ndims - 1]);
-    } /* end if */
-    else
-        ctx.size_last_dim = 0;
-
-    if (p_nelmts == 0) {
-        /* nothing to print */
-        H5Sclose(f_space);
-        return SUCCEED;
-    }
-
-    /* Check if we have VL data in the dataset's datatype */
-    if (h5tools_detect_vlen_str(p_type) == TRUE)
-        vl_data = TRUE;
-    if (H5Tdetect_class(p_type, H5T_VLEN) == TRUE)
-        vl_data = TRUE;
-
-    /*
-     * Determine the strip mine size and allocate a buffer. The strip mine is
-     * a hyperslab whose size is manageable.
-     */
-    sm_nbytes = p_type_nbytes = H5Tget_size(p_type);
-
-    if (ctx.ndims > 0) {
-        for (i = ctx.ndims; i > 0; --i) {
-            hsize_t size = H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE / sm_nbytes;
-            if ( size == 0) /* datum size > H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE */
-                size = 1;
-            sm_size[i - 1] = MIN(total_size[i - 1], size);
-            sm_nbytes *= sm_size[i - 1];
-            assert(sm_nbytes > 0);
-        }
-    }
-
-    if(!sm_nbytes)
-        goto done;
-
-    assert(sm_nbytes == (hsize_t)((size_t)sm_nbytes)); /*check for overflow*/
-    sm_buf = (unsigned char *)HDmalloc((size_t)sm_nbytes);
-
-    sm_nelmts = sm_nbytes / p_type_nbytes;
-    sm_space = H5Screate_simple(1, &sm_nelmts, NULL);
-
-    if (ctx.ndims > 0)
-        init_acc_pos(&ctx, total_size);
-
-    /* The stripmine loop */
-    memset(hs_offset, 0, sizeof hs_offset);
-    memset(zero, 0, sizeof zero);
-
-    for (elmtno = 0; elmtno < p_nelmts; elmtno += hs_nelmts) {
-        /* Calculate the hyperslab size */
-        if (ctx.ndims > 0) {
-            for (i = 0, hs_nelmts = 1; i < ctx.ndims; i++) {
-                hs_size[i] = MIN(total_size[i] - hs_offset[i], sm_size[i]);
-                ctx.p_max_idx[i] = ctx.p_min_idx[i] + hs_size[i];
-                hs_nelmts *= hs_size[i];
-            }
-
-            H5Sselect_hyperslab(f_space, H5S_SELECT_SET, hs_offset, NULL, hs_size, NULL);
-            H5Sselect_hyperslab(sm_space, H5S_SELECT_SET, zero, NULL, &hs_nelmts, NULL);
-        }
-        else {
-            H5Sselect_all(f_space);
-            H5Sselect_all(sm_space);
-            hs_nelmts = 1;
-        }
-
-        /* Read the data */
-        if (H5Dread(dset, p_type, sm_space, f_space, H5P_DEFAULT, sm_buf) < 0) {
-            H5Sclose(f_space);
-            H5Sclose(sm_space);
-            free(sm_buf);
-            return FAIL;
-        }
-
-        /* Print the data */
-        flags = (elmtno == 0) ? START_OF_DATA : 0;
-        flags |= ((elmtno + hs_nelmts) >= p_nelmts) ? END_OF_DATA : 0;
-
-        /* initialize the current stripmine position; this is necessary to print the array
-         indices */
-        ctx.sm_pos = elmtno;
-
-        h5tools_dump_simple_data(stream, info, dset, &ctx, flags, hs_nelmts, p_type, sm_buf);
-
-        /* Reclaim any VL memory, if necessary */
-        if (vl_data)
-            H5Dvlen_reclaim(p_type, sm_space, H5P_DEFAULT, sm_buf);
-
-        /* Calculate the next hyperslab offset */
-        for (i = ctx.ndims, carry = 1; i > 0 && carry; --i) {
-            ctx.p_min_idx[i - 1] = ctx.p_max_idx[i - 1];
-            hs_offset[i - 1] += hs_size[i - 1];
-
-            if (hs_offset[i - 1] == total_size[i - 1])
-                hs_offset[i - 1] = 0;
-            else
-                carry = 0;
-        }
-
-        ctx.continuation++;
-    }
-
-    /* Terminate the output */
-    if (ctx.cur_column) {
-        fputs(OPT(info->line_suf, ""), stream);
-        putc('\n', stream);
-        fputs(OPT(info->line_sep, ""), stream);
-    }
-
-    HDfree(sm_buf);
-
-done:
-    H5Sclose(sm_space);
-    H5Sclose(f_space);
-
-    return SUCCEED;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Function: h5tools_dump_simple_mem
- *
- * Purpose: Print some values from memory with a simple data space.
- *  This is a special case of h5tools_dump_mem().
- *
- * Return: Success:    SUCCEED
- *         Failure:    FAIL
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-static int
-h5tools_dump_simple_mem(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t obj_id,
-                        hid_t type, hid_t space, void *mem, int indentlevel)
-{
-    int                 i; /*counters  */
-    hsize_t        nelmts; /*total selected elmts */
-    h5tools_context_t ctx; /*printing context */
-
-    /*
-     * Check that everything looks okay.  The dimensionality must not be too
-     * great and the dimensionality of the items selected for printing must
-     * match the dimensionality of the dataset.
-     */
-    memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
-    ctx.ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(space);
-
-    if ((size_t) ctx.ndims > NELMTS(ctx.p_min_idx))
-        return FAIL;
-
-    ctx.indent_level = indentlevel;
-    ctx.need_prefix = 1;
-
-    /* Assume entire data space to be printed */
-    for (i = 0; i < ctx.ndims; i++)
-        ctx.p_min_idx[i] = 0;
-
-    H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(space, ctx.p_max_idx, NULL);
-
-    for (i = 0, nelmts = 1; ctx.ndims != 0 && i < ctx.ndims; i++)
-        nelmts *= ctx.p_max_idx[i] - ctx.p_min_idx[i];
-
-    if (nelmts == 0)
-        return SUCCEED; /*nothing to print*/
-    if (ctx.ndims > 0) {
-        assert(ctx.p_max_idx[ctx.ndims - 1] == (hsize_t) ((int) ctx.p_max_idx[ctx.ndims - 1]));
-        ctx.size_last_dim = (int) (ctx.p_max_idx[ctx.ndims - 1]);
-    } /* end if */
-    else
-        ctx.size_last_dim = 0;
-
-    if (ctx.ndims > 0)
-        init_acc_pos(&ctx, ctx.p_max_idx);
-
-    /* Print it */
-    h5tools_dump_simple_data(stream, info, obj_id, &ctx, START_OF_DATA | END_OF_DATA, nelmts, type, mem);
-
-    /* Terminate the output */
-    if (ctx.cur_column) {
-        fputs(OPT(info->line_suf, ""), stream);
-        putc('\n', stream);
-        fputs(OPT(info->line_sep, ""), stream);
-    }
-
-    return SUCCEED;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Function: h5tools_dump_dset
- *
- * Purpose: Print some values from a dataset DSET to the file STREAM
- *  after converting all types to P_TYPE (which should be a
- *  native type).  If P_TYPE is a negative value then it will be
- *  computed from the dataset type using only native types.
- *
- * Note: This function is intended only for datasets since it does
- *  some things like strip mining which are unnecessary for
- *  smaller objects such as attributes. The easiest way to print
- *  small objects is to read the object into memory and call
- *  h5tools_dump_mem().
- *
- * Return: Success:    SUCCEED
- *         Failure:    FAIL
- *
- * Modifications:
- *   Robb Matzke, 1999-06-07
- *      If info->raw is set then the memory datatype will be the same
- *      as the file datatype.
- *
- *  Bill Wendling, 2001-02-27
- *      Renamed to ``h5tools_dump_dset'' and added the subsetting
- *      parameter.
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-int
-h5tools_dump_dset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t dset,
-                  hid_t _p_type, struct subset_t *sset, int indentlevel)
-{
-    hid_t     f_space;
-    hid_t     p_type = _p_type;
-    hid_t     f_type;
-    H5S_class_t space_type;
-    int       status = FAIL;
-    h5tool_format_t info_dflt;
-    /* Use default values */
-    if (!stream)
-        stream = stdout;
-
-    if (!info) {
-        memset(&info_dflt, 0, sizeof info_dflt);
-        info = &info_dflt;
-    }
-
-    if (p_type < 0) {
-        f_type = H5Dget_type(dset);
-
-        if (info->raw || bin_form == 1)
-            p_type = H5Tcopy(f_type);
-        else if (bin_form == 2)
-            p_type = h5tools_get_little_endian_type(f_type);
-        else if (bin_form == 3)
-            p_type = h5tools_get_big_endian_type(f_type);
-        else
-            p_type = h5tools_get_native_type(f_type);
-
-        H5Tclose(f_type);
-
-        if (p_type < 0)
-            goto done;
-    }
-
-    /* Check the data space */
-    f_space = H5Dget_space(dset);
-
-    space_type = H5Sget_simple_extent_type(f_space);
-
-    /* Print the data */
-    if (space_type == H5S_SIMPLE || space_type == H5S_SCALAR) {
-        if(!sset)
-            status = h5tools_dump_simple_dset(rawdatastream, info, dset, p_type, indentlevel);
-        else
-            status = h5tools_dump_simple_subset(rawdatastream, info, dset, p_type, sset, indentlevel);
-    }
-    else
-        /* space is H5S_NULL */
-        status = SUCCEED;
-
-    /* Close the dataspace */
-    H5Sclose(f_space);
-
-done:
-    if (p_type != _p_type)
-        H5Tclose(p_type);
-
-    return status;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Function: h5tools_dump_mem
- *
- * Purpose: Displays the data contained in MEM. MEM must have the
- *  specified data TYPE and SPACE.  Currently only simple data
- *  spaces are allowed and only the `all' selection.
- *
- * Return: Success:    SUCCEED
- *         Failure:    FAIL
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-int
-h5tools_dump_mem(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t obj_id, hid_t type,
-                 hid_t space, void *mem, int indentlevel)
-{
-    HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
-    h5tool_format_t    info_dflt;
-
-    /* Use default values */
-    if (!stream)
-        stream = stdout;
-
-    if (!info) {
-        memset(&info_dflt, 0, sizeof(info_dflt));
-        info = &info_dflt;
-    }
-
-    /* Check the data space */
-    if (H5Sis_simple(space) <= 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sis_simple failed")
-
-     H5_LEAVE(h5tools_dump_simple_mem(stream, info, obj_id, type, space, mem, indentlevel))
-
-CATCH
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Function:    print_datatype
- *
- * Purpose:     print the datatype.
- *
- * Return:      void
- *
- * In/Out:      h5tools_str_t *buffer
- *              h5tools_context_t *ctx
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-int
-h5tools_print_datatype(h5tools_str_t *buffer, const h5tool_format_t *info,
-        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t type)
-{
-    HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
-    char        *mname;
-    hid_t        mtype, str_type;
-    int          snmembers;
-    unsigned     nmembers;
-    int          sndims;
-    unsigned     i;
-    size_t       size = 0;
-    hsize_t      dims[H5TOOLS_DUMP_MAX_RANK];
-    H5T_str_t    str_pad;
-    H5T_cset_t   cset;
-    H5T_order_t  order;
-    H5T_class_t  type_class;
-    hid_t        super;
-    hid_t        tmp_type;
-    htri_t       is_vlstr = FALSE;
-    const char  *order_s = NULL; /* byte order string */
-    H5T_sign_t   sign;           /* sign scheme value */
-    const char  *sign_s = NULL;  /* sign scheme string */
-
-    if((type_class = H5Tget_class(type)) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_class failed");
-    switch (type_class) {
-    case H5T_INTEGER:
-        if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I8BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I8BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I8LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I8LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I16BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I16BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I16LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I16LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I32BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I32BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I32LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I32LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I64BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I64BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I64LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I64LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U8BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U8BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U8LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U8LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U16BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U16BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U16LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U16LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U32BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U32BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U32LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U32LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U64BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U64BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U64LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U64LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_SCHAR) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_SCHAR");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_UCHAR) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_UCHAR");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_SHORT) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_SHORT");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_USHORT) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_USHORT");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_INT) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_INT");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_UINT) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_UINT");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_LONG) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_LONG");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_ULONG) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_ULONG");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_LLONG) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_LLONG");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_ULLONG) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_ULLONG");
-        }
-        else {
-
-            /* byte order */
-            if (H5Tget_size(type) > 1) {
-                order = H5Tget_order(type);
-                if (H5T_ORDER_LE == order) {
-                    order_s = " little-endian";
-                }
-                else if (H5T_ORDER_BE == order) {
-                    order_s = " big-endian";
-                }
-                else if (H5T_ORDER_VAX == order) {
-                    order_s = " mixed-endian";
-                }
-                else {
-                    order_s = " unknown-byte-order";
-                }
-            }
-            else {
-                order_s = "";
-            }
-
-            /* sign */
-            if ((sign = H5Tget_sign(type)) >= 0) {
-                if (H5T_SGN_NONE == sign) {
-                    sign_s = " unsigned";
-                }
-                else if (H5T_SGN_2 == sign) {
-                    sign_s = "";
-                }
-                else {
-                    sign_s = " unknown-sign";
-                }
-            }
-            else {
-                sign_s = " unknown-sign";
-            }
-
-            /* print size, order, and sign  */
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%lu-bit%s%s integer",
-                                (unsigned long) (8 * H5Tget_size(type)), order_s, sign_s);
-        }
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_FLOAT:
-        if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_IEEE_F32BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_IEEE_F32BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_IEEE_F32LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_IEEE_F32LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_IEEE_F64BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_IEEE_F64BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_IEEE_F64LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_IEEE_F64LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_VAX_F32) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_VAX_F32");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_VAX_F64) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_VAX_F64");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_FLOAT) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_FLOAT");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE");
-#if H5_SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE !=0
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE");
-#endif
-        }
-        else {
-
-            /* byte order */
-            if (H5Tget_size(type) > 1) {
-                order = H5Tget_order(type);
-                if (H5T_ORDER_LE == order) {
-                    order_s = " little-endian";
-                }
-                else if (H5T_ORDER_BE == order) {
-                    order_s = " big-endian";
-                }
-                else if (H5T_ORDER_VAX == order) {
-                    order_s = " mixed-endian";
-                }
-                else {
-                    order_s = " unknown-byte-order";
-                }
-            }
-            else {
-                order_s = "";
-            }
-
-            /* print size and byte order */
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%lu-bit%s floating-point",
-                                (unsigned long) (8 * H5Tget_size(type)), order_s);
-
-        }
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_TIME:
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_TIME: not yet implemented");
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_STRING:
-        /* Make a copy of type in memory in case when TYPE is on disk, the size
-         * will be bigger than in memory.  This makes it easier to compare
-         * types in memory. */
-        tmp_type = H5Tcopy(type);
-        size = H5Tget_size(tmp_type);
-        str_pad = H5Tget_strpad(tmp_type);
-        cset = H5Tget_cset(tmp_type);
-        is_vlstr = H5Tis_variable_str(tmp_type);
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STRING %s\n", h5tools_dump_header_format->strblockbegin);
-        ctx->indent_level++;
-
-        if (is_vlstr)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s H5T_VARIABLE;\n", STRSIZE);
-        else
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %d;\n", STRSIZE, (int) size);
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", STRPAD);
-        if (str_pad == H5T_STR_NULLTERM)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STR_NULLTERM;\n");
-        else if (str_pad == H5T_STR_NULLPAD)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STR_NULLPAD;\n");
-        else if (str_pad == H5T_STR_SPACEPAD)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STR_SPACEPAD;\n");
-        else
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STR_ERROR;\n");
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", CSET);
-
-        if (cset == H5T_CSET_ASCII)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_CSET_ASCII;\n");
-        else
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "unknown_cset;\n");
-
-        str_type = H5Tcopy(H5T_C_S1);
-        if (is_vlstr)
-            H5Tset_size(str_type, H5T_VARIABLE);
-        else
-            H5Tset_size(str_type, size);
-        H5Tset_cset(str_type, cset);
-        H5Tset_strpad(str_type, str_pad);
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", CTYPE);
-
-        /* Check C variable-length string first. Are the two types equal? */
-        if (H5Tequal(tmp_type, str_type)) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_C_S1;\n");
-            goto done;
-        }
-
-        /* Change the endianness and see if they're equal. */
-        order = H5Tget_order(tmp_type);
-        if (order == H5T_ORDER_LE)
-            H5Tset_order(str_type, H5T_ORDER_LE);
-        else if (order == H5T_ORDER_BE)
-            H5Tset_order(str_type, H5T_ORDER_BE);
-
-        if (H5Tequal(tmp_type, str_type)) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_C_S1;\n");
-            goto done;
-        }
-
-        /* If not equal to C variable-length string, check Fortran type. */
-        if(H5Tclose(str_type) < 0)
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-        str_type = H5Tcopy(H5T_FORTRAN_S1);
-
-        H5Tset_cset(str_type, cset);
-        H5Tset_size(str_type, size);
-        H5Tset_strpad(str_type, str_pad);
-
-        /* Are the two types equal? */
-        if (H5Tequal(tmp_type, str_type)) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_FORTRAN_S1;\n");
-            goto done;
-        }
-
-        /* Change the endianness and see if they're equal. */
-        order = H5Tget_order(tmp_type);
-        if (order == H5T_ORDER_LE)
-            H5Tset_order(str_type, H5T_ORDER_LE);
-        else if (order == H5T_ORDER_BE)
-            H5Tset_order(str_type, H5T_ORDER_BE);
-
-        if (H5Tequal(tmp_type, str_type)) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_FORTRAN_S1;\n");
-            goto done;
-        }
-
-        /* Type doesn't match any of above. */
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "unknown_one_character_type;\n ");
-
-  done:
-        if(H5Tclose(str_type) < 0)
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-        if(H5Tclose(tmp_type) < 0)
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-
-        ctx->indent_level--;
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->strblockend);
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_BITFIELD:
-        if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B8BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B8BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B8LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B8LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B16BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B16BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B16LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B16LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B32BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B32BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B32LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B32LE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B64BE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B64BE");
-        }
-        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B64LE) == TRUE) {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B64LE");
-        }
-        else {
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "undefined bitfield");
-        }
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_OPAQUE:
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "\n");
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_OPAQUE;\n");
-        {
-           char *ttag = H5Tget_tag(type);
-           h5tools_str_append(buffer, "OPAQUE_TAG \"%s\";\n", ttag);
-           if (ttag)
-              HDfree(ttag);
-        } 
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_COMPOUND:
-        if((snmembers = H5Tget_nmembers(type)) < 0)
-            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_nmembers failed");
-        nmembers = (unsigned)snmembers;
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_COMPOUND %s\n", h5tools_dump_header_format->structblockbegin);
-
-        for (i = 0; i < nmembers; i++) {
-            mname = H5Tget_member_name(type, i);
-            if((mtype = H5Tget_member_type(type, i))>=0) {
-                if (H5Tget_class(mtype) == H5T_COMPOUND)
-                    ctx->indent_level++;
-
-                h5tools_print_datatype(buffer, info, ctx, mtype);
-
-                if (H5Tget_class(mtype) == H5T_COMPOUND)
-                    ctx->indent_level--;
-
-                h5tools_str_append(buffer, " \"%s\";\n", mname);
-                if(H5Tclose(mtype) < 0)
-                    HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-            }
-            else
-                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_member_type failed");
-            free(mname);
-        }
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->structblockend);
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_REFERENCE:
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_REFERENCE");
-        if(region_output) {
-            if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG) == TRUE) {
-                h5tools_str_append(buffer, " { H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG }");
-            }
-            else {
-                h5tools_str_append(buffer, " { H5T_STD_REF_OBJECT }");
-            }
-        }
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_ENUM:
-        if((super = H5Tget_super(type)) < 0)
-            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_nmembers failed");
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_ENUM %s\n", h5tools_dump_header_format->enumblockbegin);
-        ctx->indent_level++;
-
-        h5tools_print_datatype(buffer, info, ctx, super);
-        if(H5Tclose(super) < 0)
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, ";\n");
-        h5tools_print_enum(buffer, type);
-
-        ctx->indent_level--;
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->enumblockend);
-
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_VLEN:
-        if((super = H5Tget_super(type)) < 0)
-            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_nmembers failed");
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_VLEN %s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->vlenblockbegin);
-
-        h5tools_print_datatype(buffer, info, ctx, super);
-        if(H5Tclose(super) < 0)
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->vlenblockend);
-
-        break;
-
-    case H5T_ARRAY:
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_ARRAY { ");
-
-        /* Get array information */
-        if((sndims = H5Tget_array_ndims(type)) >= 0) {
-            unsigned     ndims = (unsigned)sndims;
-
-            if(H5Tget_array_dims2(type, dims) >= 0) {
-                /* Print array dimensions */
-                for (i = 0; i < ndims; i++)
-                    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "[%d]", (int) dims[i]);
-
-                h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
-            }
-            else
-                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_array_dims2 failed");
-        }
-        else
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_array_ndims failed");
-
-        /* Get array base type */
-        if((super = H5Tget_super(type)) >= 0) {
-            /* Print base type */
-            h5tools_print_datatype(buffer, info, ctx, super);
-            /* Close array base type */
-            if(H5Tclose(super) < 0)
-                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
-        }
-        else
-            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_super failed");
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, " }");
-
-        break;
-
-    default:
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "unknown datatype");
-        break;
-    }
-
-CATCH
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Function:    print_dataspace
- *
- * Purpose:     print the dataspace.
- *
- * Return:      void
- *
- * In/Out:      h5tools_str_t *buffer
- *              h5tools_context_t *ctx
- *
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-int
-h5tools_print_dataspace(h5tools_str_t *buffer, hid_t space)
-{
-    HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
-    hsize_t     size[H5TOOLS_DUMP_MAX_RANK];
-    hsize_t     maxsize[H5TOOLS_DUMP_MAX_RANK];
-    int         ndims = -1;
-    H5S_class_t space_type = -1;
-    int         i;
-
-    if((ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(space, size, maxsize)) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_dims failed");
-
-    if((space_type = H5Sget_simple_extent_type(space)) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_type failed");
-
-    switch(space_type) {
-    case H5S_SCALAR:
-        /* scalar dataspace */
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedescriptionbegin, S_SCALAR);
-        break;
-
-    case H5S_SIMPLE:
-        /* simple dataspace */
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s { %s %" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u",
-                            h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedescriptionbegin, S_SIMPLE,
-                            h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimbegin, size[0]);
-
-        for(i = 1; i < ndims; i++)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, ", %" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u", size[i]);
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, " %s / ", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimend);
-
-        if(maxsize[0] == H5S_UNLIMITED)
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s",
-                                h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimbegin, "H5S_UNLIMITED");
-        else
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u",
-                                h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimbegin, maxsize[0]);
-
-        for(i = 1; i < ndims; i++)
-            if(maxsize[i] == H5S_UNLIMITED)
-                h5tools_str_append(buffer, ", %s", "H5S_UNLIMITED");
-            else
-                h5tools_str_append(buffer, ", %" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u", maxsize[i]);
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, " %s }", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimend);
-        break;
-
-    case H5S_NULL:
-        /* null dataspace */
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedescriptionbegin, S_NULL);
-        break;
-
-    case H5S_NO_CLASS:
-    default:
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s unknown dataspace %s\n", BEGIN, END);
-        break;
-    } /* end switch */
-
-CATCH
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Function:    print_enum
- *
- * Purpose:     prints the enum data
- *
- * Return:      void
- *
- * In/Out:      h5tools_str_t *buffer
- *              h5tools_context_t *ctx
- *
- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
-int
-h5tools_print_enum(h5tools_str_t *buffer, hid_t type)
-{
-    HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
-    char         **name = NULL;  /*member names                   */
-    unsigned char *value = NULL; /*value array                    */
-    unsigned char *copy = NULL;  /*a pointer to value array       */
-    unsigned       nmembs = 0;   /*number of members              */
-    int            nchars;       /*number of output characters    */
-    hid_t          super = -1;   /*enum base integer type         */
-    hid_t          native = -1;  /*native integer datatype        */
-    H5T_sign_t     sign_type;    /*sign of value type             */
-    size_t         type_size;    /*value type size                */
-    size_t         dst_size;     /*destination value type size    */
-    int            snmembs;
-    unsigned       i;
-
-    if((snmembs = H5Tget_nmembers(type)) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_nmembers failed");
-    nmembs = (unsigned)snmembs;
-    assert(nmembs > 0);
-
-    if((super = H5Tget_super(type)) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_super failed");
-
-    if((type_size = H5Tget_size(type)) <= 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_size(type) failed");
-
-    /*
-     * Determine what datatype to use for the native values.  To simplify
-     * things we entertain three possibilities:
-     *  1. long long -- the largest native signed integer
-     *  2. unsigned long long -- the largest native unsigned integer
-     *  3. raw format
-     */
-    if(type_size <= sizeof(long long)) {
-        dst_size = sizeof(long long);
-
-        if((sign_type = H5Tget_sign(type))<0)
-            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_sign failed");
-        if(H5T_SGN_NONE == sign_type)
-            native = H5T_NATIVE_ULLONG;
-        else
-            native = H5T_NATIVE_LLONG;
-    } /* end if */
-    else
-        dst_size = type_size;
-
-    /* Get the names and raw values of all members */
-    if(NULL == (name = (char **)HDcalloc(nmembs, sizeof(char *))))
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for member name");
-    if(NULL == (value = (unsigned char *)HDcalloc(nmembs, MAX(type_size, dst_size))))
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for member value");
-
-    for (i = 0; i < nmembs; i++) {
-        name[i] = H5Tget_member_name(type, i);
-        if(H5Tget_member_value(type, i, value + i * type_size) < 0)
-            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_member_value failed");
-    }
-
-    /* Convert values to native datatype */
-    if (native > 0)
-        if(H5Tconvert(super, native, nmembs, value, NULL, H5P_DEFAULT) < 0)
-            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tconvert failed");
-
-    /*
-     * Sort members by increasing value
-     *    ***not implemented yet***
-     */
-
-    /* Print members */
-    for (i = 0; i < nmembs; i++) {
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "\"%s\"", name[i]);
-        nchars = strlen(name[i]);
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%*s   ", MAX(0, 16 - nchars), "");
-
-        if (native < 0) {
-            size_t j;
-
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "0x");
-
-            for (j = 0; j < dst_size; j++)
-                h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%02x", value[i * dst_size + j]);
-        }
-        else if (H5T_SGN_NONE == H5Tget_sign(native)) {
-            /*On SGI Altix(cobalt), wrong values were printed out with "value+i*dst_size"
-             *strangely, unless use another pointer "copy".*/
-            copy = value + i * dst_size;
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u", *((unsigned long long *) ((void *) copy)));
-        }
-        else {
-            /*On SGI Altix(cobalt), wrong values were printed out with "value+i*dst_size"
-             *strangely, unless use another pointer "copy".*/
-            copy = value + i * dst_size;
-            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "d", *((long long *) ((void *) copy)));
-        }
-
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, ";\n");
-    }
-
-CATCH
-    if(name) {
-        /* Release resources */
-        for(i = 0; i < nmembs; i++)
-            if(name[i])
-                free(name[i]);
-        free(name);
-    } /* end if */
-
-    if(value)
-        free(value);
-
-    if(super >= 0 && H5Tclose(super) < 0)
-        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not close datatype's super class");
-
-    if(0 == nmembs)
-        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "\n<empty>");
-
-    return ret_value;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Function:    dump_datatype
- *
- * Purpose:     Dump the datatype. Datatype can be HDF5 predefined
- *              atomic datatype or committed/transient datatype.
- *
- * Return:      void
- *
- * In/Out:      h5tools_context_t *ctx
- *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- */
-void
-h5tools_dump_datatype(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
-        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t type)
-{
-    size_t        ncols = 80;      /* available output width        */
-    h5tools_str_t buffer;          /* string into which to render   */
-    hsize_t       curr_pos;        /* total data element position   */
-    hsize_t       elmt_counter = 0;/* counts the # elements printed.*/
-
-    /* setup */
-    HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
-
-    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
-        ncols = info->line_ncols;
-
-    /* pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
-     * instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
-     * to print the array indices
-     */
-    curr_pos = ctx->sm_pos;
-
-    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
-    /* Render the element */
-    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
-
-    ctx->indent_level++;
-    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s ",
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypebegin,
-                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockbegin);
-
-    h5tools_print_datatype(&buffer, info, ctx, type);
-
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend)) {
-        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend);
-        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
-            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, " ");
-    }
-    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
-        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend);
-    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "\n");
-
-    curr_pos = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos,
-                                       ncols, elmt_counter, 0);
-
-    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
-    ctx->indent_level--;
-}
-
-/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Function:    init_acc_pos
  *
  * Purpose:     initialize accumulator and matrix position
@@ -3653,8 +1046,8 @@ init_acc_pos(h5tools_context_t *ctx, hsize_t *dims)
  *         Failure:    FAIL
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
-static
-int do_bin_output(FILE *stream, hid_t container, hsize_t nelmts, hid_t tid, void *_mem)
+int
+do_bin_output(FILE *stream, hid_t container, hsize_t nelmts, hid_t tid, void *_mem)
 {
     HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
     unsigned char *mem  = (unsigned char*)_mem;
@@ -3684,7 +1077,7 @@ CATCH
  *         Failure:    FAIL
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
-static int
+int
 render_bin_output(FILE *stream, hid_t container, hid_t tid, void *_mem)
 {
     HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
@@ -4067,7 +1460,7 @@ CATCH
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
-static int
+int
 render_bin_output_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_id, FILE *stream,
     hid_t container, int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t nblocks, hsize_t *ptdata)
 {
@@ -4167,7 +1560,7 @@ render_bin_output_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_id, FILE *stream,
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
-static hbool_t
+hbool_t
 render_bin_output_region_blocks(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
         FILE *stream, hid_t container)
 {
@@ -4294,7 +1687,7 @@ render_bin_output_region_data_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
-static hbool_t
+hbool_t
 render_bin_output_region_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
         FILE *stream, hid_t container)
 {
@@ -4353,8 +1746,8 @@ CATCH
  * Return:  TRUE if all bytes are zero; FALSE otherwise
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
-static
-hbool_t h5tools_is_zero(const void *_mem, size_t size)
+hbool_t
+h5tools_is_zero(const void *_mem, size_t size)
 {
     const unsigned char *mem = (const unsigned char *) _mem;
 
@@ -4385,7 +1778,8 @@ hbool_t h5tools_is_zero(const void *_mem, size_t size)
   *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
-hbool_t h5tools_is_obj_same(hid_t loc_id1, const char *name1,
+hbool_t
+h5tools_is_obj_same(hid_t loc_id1, const char *name1,
                         hid_t loc_id2, const char *name2)
 {
     H5O_info_t oinfo1,  oinfo2;
diff --git a/tools/lib/h5tools.h b/tools/lib/h5tools.h
index 3470b20..30d5796 100644
--- a/tools/lib/h5tools.h
+++ b/tools/lib/h5tools.h
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@
 #define EXTERNAL_FILE   "EXTERNAL_FILE"
 #define FILLVALUE       "FILLVALUE"
 #define FILE_CONTENTS   "FILE_CONTENTS"
+#define PACKED_BITS     "PACKED_BITS"
+#define PACKED_OFFSET   "OFFSET"
+#define PACKED_LENGTH   "LENGTH"
 
 #define BEGIN           "{"
 #define END             "}"
@@ -509,17 +512,25 @@ struct subset_t {
 
 #include "h5tools_str.h"
 
+extern h5tool_format_t h5tools_dataformat;
+extern const h5tools_dump_header_t h5tools_standardformat;
+extern const h5tools_dump_header_t* h5tools_dump_header_format;
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif
 
-H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     packed_bits_num;       /* number of packed bits to display */
-H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     packed_data_offset;    /* offset of packed bits to display */
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     packed_bits_num;     /* number of packed bits to display */
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     packed_data_offset;  /* offset of packed bits to display */
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     packed_data_length; /* lengtht of packed bits to display */
 H5TOOLS_DLLVAR unsigned long long packed_data_mask;  /* mask in which packed bits to display */
 H5TOOLS_DLLVAR FILE   *rawdatastream;       /* output stream for raw data */
 H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     bin_output;          /* binary output */
 H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     bin_form;            /* binary form */
 H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     region_output;       /* region output */
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     oid_output;          /* oid output */
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     data_output;         /* data output */
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     attr_data_output;    /* attribute data output */
 
 /* Strings for output */
 #define H5_TOOLS_GROUP           "GROUP"
@@ -527,41 +538,45 @@ H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     region_output;       /* region output */
 #define H5_TOOLS_DATATYPE        "DATATYPE"
 
 /* Definitions of useful routines */
-H5TOOLS_DLL void     h5tools_init(void);
-H5TOOLS_DLL void     h5tools_close(void);
-H5TOOLS_DLL hid_t    h5tools_fopen(const char *fname, unsigned flags, hid_t fapl,
-                    const char *driver, char *drivername, size_t drivername_len);
-H5TOOLS_DLL int      h5tools_dump_dset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t dset,
-                                  hid_t p_typ, struct subset_t *sset, int indentlevel);
-H5TOOLS_DLL int      h5tools_dump_mem(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t obj_id,
-                                 hid_t type, hid_t space, void *mem, int indentlevel);
-H5TOOLS_DLL hid_t    h5tools_get_native_type(hid_t type);
-H5TOOLS_DLL hid_t    h5tools_get_little_endian_type(hid_t type);
-H5TOOLS_DLL hid_t    h5tools_get_big_endian_type(hid_t type);
-
-H5TOOLS_DLL htri_t   h5tools_detect_vlen(hid_t tid);
-H5TOOLS_DLL htri_t   h5tools_detect_vlen_str(hid_t tid);
-H5TOOLS_DLL hbool_t   h5tools_is_obj_same(hid_t loc_id1, const char *name1, hid_t loc_id2, const char *name2);
-
-H5TOOLS_DLL void     h5tools_dump_simple_data(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t container,
-                         h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, unsigned flags,
-                         hsize_t nelmts, hid_t type, void *_mem);
-
-H5TOOLS_DLL int      h5tools_canreadf(const char* name,
-                                 hid_t dcpl_id);
-H5TOOLS_DLL int      h5tools_can_encode(H5Z_filter_t filtn);
-
-void            init_acc_pos(h5tools_context_t *ctx, hsize_t *dims);
-/*
- * new functions needed to display region reference data
- */
-void            h5tools_dump_datatype(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
-                         h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t type);
-int             h5tools_print_dataspace(h5tools_str_t *buffer/*in,out*/, hid_t space);
-int             h5tools_print_datatype(h5tools_str_t *buffer/*in,out*/,
-                         const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
-                         hid_t type);
-int             h5tools_print_enum(h5tools_str_t *buffer/*in,out*/, hid_t type);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_init(void);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_close(void);
+H5TOOLS_DLL hid_t   h5tools_fopen(const char *fname, unsigned flags, hid_t fapl,
+                            const char *driver, char *drivername, size_t drivername_len);
+H5TOOLS_DLL hid_t   h5tools_get_native_type(hid_t type);
+H5TOOLS_DLL hid_t   h5tools_get_little_endian_type(hid_t type);
+H5TOOLS_DLL hid_t   h5tools_get_big_endian_type(hid_t type);
+H5TOOLS_DLL htri_t  h5tools_detect_vlen(hid_t tid);
+H5TOOLS_DLL htri_t  h5tools_detect_vlen_str(hid_t tid);
+H5TOOLS_DLL hbool_t h5tools_is_obj_same(hid_t loc_id1, const char *name1, hid_t loc_id2, const char *name2);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    init_acc_pos(h5tools_context_t *ctx, hsize_t *dims);
+H5TOOLS_DLL hbool_t h5tools_is_zero(const void *_mem, size_t size);
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     h5tools_canreadf(const char* name,  hid_t dcpl_id);
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     h5tools_can_encode(H5Z_filter_t filtn);
+
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_simple_prefix(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx, hsize_t elmtno, int secnum);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_region_simple_prefix(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx, hsize_t elmtno, hsize_t *ptdata, int secnum);
+
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     do_bin_output(FILE *stream, hid_t container, hsize_t nelmts, hid_t tid, void *_mem);
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     render_bin_output(FILE *stream, hid_t container, hid_t tid, void *_mem);
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     render_bin_output_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_id, FILE *stream,
+                            hid_t container, int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t nblocks, hsize_t *ptdata);
+H5TOOLS_DLL hbool_t render_bin_output_region_blocks(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
+                             FILE *stream, hid_t container);
+H5TOOLS_DLL hbool_t render_bin_output_region_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
+                             FILE *stream, hid_t container);
+
+H5TOOLS_DLL hbool_t h5tools_render_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx, h5tools_str_t *buffer, hsize_t *curr_pos,
+                            size_t ncols, hsize_t local_elmt_counter, hsize_t elmt_counter);
+H5TOOLS_DLL hbool_t h5tools_render_region_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
+                h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
+                hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
+                size_t ncols, hsize_t *ptdata,
+                hsize_t local_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
+                hsize_t elmt_counter);
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
diff --git a/tools/lib/h5tools_dump.c b/tools/lib/h5tools_dump.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e194be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/lib/h5tools_dump.c
@@ -0,0 +1,3920 @@
+/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
+ * Copyright by The HDF Group.                                               *
+ * Copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.         *
+ * All rights reserved.                                                      *
+ *                                                                           *
+ * This file is part of HDF5.  The full HDF5 copyright notice, including     *
+ * terms governing use, modification, and redistribution, is contained in    *
+ * the files COPYING and Copyright.html.  COPYING can be found at the root   *
+ * of the source code distribution tree; Copyright.html can be found at the  *
+ * root level of an installed copy of the electronic HDF5 document set and   *
+ * is linked from the top-level documents page.  It can also be found at     *
+ * http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Copyright.html.  If you do not have          *
+ * access to either file, you may request a copy from help@hdfgroup.org.     *
+ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
+
+/*
+ * Programmer:  Robb Matzke <matzke@llnl.gov>
+ *              Thursday, July 23, 1998
+ *
+ * Purpose: A library for displaying the values of a dataset in a human
+ *  readable format.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
+#include "h5tools.h"
+#include "h5tools_dump.h"
+#include "h5tools_ref.h"
+#include "h5tools_utils.h"
+#include "H5private.h"
+
+#define SANITY_CHECK
+
+#define ALIGN(A,Z)  ((((A) + (Z) - 1) / (Z)) * (Z))
+
+h5tool_format_t h5tools_dataformat = {
+0, /*raw */
+
+"", /*fmt_raw */
+"%d", /*fmt_int */
+"%u", /*fmt_uint */
+"%hhd", /*fmt_schar */
+"%u", /*fmt_uchar */
+"%d", /*fmt_short */
+"%u", /*fmt_ushort */
+"%ld", /*fmt_long */
+"%lu", /*fmt_ulong */
+NULL, /*fmt_llong */
+NULL, /*fmt_ullong */
+"%g", /*fmt_double */
+"%g", /*fmt_float */
+
+0, /*ascii */
+0, /*str_locale */
+0, /*str_repeat */
+
+"[ ", /*arr_pre */
+",", /*arr_sep */
+" ]", /*arr_suf */
+1, /*arr_linebreak */
+
+"", /*cmpd_name */
+",\n", /*cmpd_sep */
+"{", /*cmpd_pre */
+"}", /*cmpd_suf */
+"\n", /*cmpd_end */
+
+", ", /*vlen_sep */
+"(", /*vlen_pre */
+")", /*vlen_suf */
+"", /*vlen_end */
+
+"%s", /*elmt_fmt */
+",", /*elmt_suf1 */
+" ", /*elmt_suf2 */
+
+"", /*idx_n_fmt */
+"", /*idx_sep */
+"", /*idx_fmt */
+
+80, /*line_ncols *//*standard default columns */
+0, /*line_per_line */
+"", /*line_pre */
+"%s", /*line_1st */
+"%s", /*line_cont */
+"", /*line_suf */
+"", /*line_sep */
+1, /*line_multi_new */
+"   ", /*line_indent */
+
+1, /*skip_first */
+
+1, /*obj_hidefileno */
+" "H5_PRINTF_HADDR_FMT, /*obj_format */
+
+1, /*dset_hidefileno */
+"DATASET %s ", /*dset_format */
+"%s", /*dset_blockformat_pre */
+"%s", /*dset_ptformat_pre */
+"%s", /*dset_ptformat */
+1, /*array indices */
+1 /*escape non printable characters */
+};
+
+const h5tools_dump_header_t h5tools_standardformat = {
+"standardformat", /*name */
+"HDF5", /*fileebgin */
+"", /*fileend */
+SUPER_BLOCK, /*bootblockbegin */
+"", /*bootblockend */
+H5_TOOLS_GROUP, /*groupbegin */
+"", /*groupend */
+H5_TOOLS_DATASET, /*datasetbegin */
+"", /*datasetend */
+ATTRIBUTE, /*attributebegin */
+"", /*attributeend */
+H5_TOOLS_DATATYPE, /*datatypebegin */
+"", /*datatypeend */
+DATASPACE, /*dataspacebegin */
+"", /*dataspaceend */
+DATA, /*databegin */
+"", /*dataend */
+SOFTLINK, /*softlinkbegin */
+"", /*softlinkend */
+EXTLINK, /*extlinkbegin */
+"", /*extlinkend */
+UDLINK, /*udlinkbegin */
+"", /*udlinkend */
+SUBSET, /*subsettingbegin */
+"", /*subsettingend */
+START, /*startbegin */
+"", /*startend */
+STRIDE, /*stridebegin */
+"", /*strideend */
+COUNT, /*countbegin */
+"", /*countend */
+BLOCK, /*blockbegin */
+"", /*blockend */
+
+"{", /*fileblockbegin */
+"}", /*fileblockend */
+"{", /*bootblockblockbegin */
+"}", /*bootblockblockend */
+"{", /*groupblockbegin */
+"}", /*groupblockend */
+"{", /*datasetblockbegin */
+"}", /*datasetblockend */
+"{", /*attributeblockbegin */
+"}", /*attributeblockend */
+"", /*datatypeblockbegin */
+"", /*datatypeblockend */
+"", /*dataspaceblockbegin */
+"", /*dataspaceblockend */
+"{", /*datablockbegin */
+"}", /*datablockend */
+"{", /*softlinkblockbegin */
+"}", /*softlinkblockend */
+"{", /*extlinkblockbegin */
+"}", /*extlinkblockend */
+"{", /*udlinkblockbegin */
+"}", /*udlinkblockend */
+"{", /*strblockbegin */
+"}", /*strblockend */
+"{", /*enumblockbegin */
+"}", /*enumblockend */
+"{", /*structblockbegin */
+"}", /*structblockend */
+"{", /*vlenblockbegin */
+"}", /*vlenblockend */
+"{", /*subsettingblockbegin */
+"}", /*subsettingblockend */
+"(", /*startblockbegin */
+");", /*startblockend */
+"(", /*strideblockbegin */
+");", /*strideblockend */
+"(", /*countblockbegin */
+");", /*countblockend */
+"(", /*blockblockbegin */
+");", /*blockblockend */
+
+"", /*dataspacedescriptionbegin */
+"", /*dataspacedescriptionend */
+"(", /*dataspacedimbegin */
+")", /*dataspacedimend */
+};
+
+const h5tools_dump_header_t* h5tools_dump_header_format;
+table_t *h5dump_type_table = NULL;  /*type table reference for datatype dump  */
+
+/* local prototypes */
+
+hbool_t h5tools_render_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
+                h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
+                hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
+                size_t ncols, hsize_t local_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
+                hsize_t elmt_counter);
+
+hbool_t h5tools_render_region_element(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
+                h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
+                hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
+                size_t ncols, hsize_t *ptdata,
+                hsize_t local_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
+                hsize_t elmt_counter);
+
+static int h5tools_print_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_id,
+        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *cur_ctx,
+        h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */, size_t ncols,
+        int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t nblocks, hsize_t *ptdata);
+
+hbool_t h5tools_dump_region_data_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
+                FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
+                h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
+                hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
+                size_t ncols, hsize_t region_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
+                hsize_t elmt_counter);
+
+int h5tools_print_region_data_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
+        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *cur_ctx,
+        h5tools_str_t *buffer, size_t ncols,
+        int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t npoints, hsize_t *ptdata);
+
+hbool_t h5tools_dump_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
+                FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
+                h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
+                hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
+                size_t ncols, hsize_t region_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
+                hsize_t elmt_counter);
+void
+h5tools_dump_init(void)
+{
+    h5tools_dump_header_format = &h5tools_standardformat;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Audience:    Public
+ * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
+ * Purpose:     Prints NELMTS data elements to output STREAM.
+ * Description:
+ *      Prints some (NELMTS) data elements to output STREAM. The elements are
+ *      stored in _MEM as type TYPE and are printed according to the format
+ *      described in INFO. The CTX struct contains context information shared
+ *      between calls to this function. The FLAGS is a bit field that
+ *      indicates whether the data supplied in this call falls at the
+ *      beginning or end of the total data to be printed (START_OF_DATA and
+ *      END_OF_DATA).
+ * Return:
+ *      None
+ * Programmer:
+ *      Robb Matzke, Monday, April 26, 1999
+ * Modifications:
+ *  Robb Matzke, 1999-06-04
+ * The `container' argument is the optional dataset for reference types.
+ *
+ *  Robb Matzke, 1999-09-29
+ * Understands the `per_line' property which indicates that every Nth
+ * element should begin a new line.
+ *
+ *      Robb Matzke, LLNL, 2003-06-05
+ *      Do not dereference the memory for a variable-length string here.
+ *      Deref in h5tools_str_sprint() instead so recursive types are
+ *      handled correctly.
+ *
+ *      Pedro Vicente Nunes, The HDF Group, 2005-10-19
+ *        pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
+ *        instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
+ *        to print the array indices
+ *        new field sm_pos in h5tools_context_t, the current stripmine element position
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_dump_simple_data(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t container,
+                         h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, unsigned flags,
+                         hsize_t nelmts, hid_t type, void *_mem)
+{
+    unsigned char *mem = (unsigned char*) _mem;
+    hsize_t        i;         /*element counter  */
+    size_t         size;      /*size of each datum  */
+    hid_t          region_space = -1;
+    hid_t          region_id = -1;
+    hbool_t        dimension_break = TRUE;
+    H5S_sel_type   region_type;
+    size_t         ncols = 80; /*available output width */
+    h5tools_str_t  buffer;    /*string into which to render */
+    hsize_t        curr_pos = 0;  /* total data element position   */
+    hsize_t        elmt_counter = 0;/*counts the # elements printed.
+                                     *I (ptl?) needed something that
+                                     *isn't going to get reset when a new
+                                     *line is formed. I'm going to use
+                                     *this var to count elements and
+                                     *break after we see a number equal
+                                     *to the ctx->size_last_dim.   */
+
+    /* binary dump */
+    if (bin_output) {
+        do_bin_output(rawdatastream, container, nelmts, type, _mem);
+    } /* end if */
+    else {
+        /* setup */
+        HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
+        size = H5Tget_size(type);
+
+        if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+            ncols = info->line_ncols;
+
+        /* pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
+         * instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
+         * to print the array indices
+         */
+        curr_pos = ctx->sm_pos;
+
+        if (region_output && H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG)) {
+            for (i = 0; i < nelmts; i++, ctx->cur_elmt++, elmt_counter++) {
+                void* memref = mem + i * size;
+                char ref_name[1024];
+
+                /* region data */
+                region_id = H5Rdereference2(container, H5P_DEFAULT, H5R_DATASET_REGION, memref);
+                if (region_id >= 0) {
+                    region_space = H5Rget_region(container, H5R_DATASET_REGION, memref);
+                    if (region_space >= 0) {
+                        if (h5tools_is_zero(memref, H5Tget_size(type))) {
+                            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+
+                            /* Render the region element begin */
+                            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "NULL");
+
+                            dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info,
+                                       ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, i, elmt_counter);
+                        }
+                        else {
+                            if(H5Rget_name(region_id, H5R_DATASET_REGION, memref, (char*) ref_name, 1024)<0)
+                                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Rget_name failed");
+
+                            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos+i, 0);
+
+                            /* Render the region element begin */
+                            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, info->dset_format, ref_name);
+
+                            dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info,
+                                       ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, i, elmt_counter);
+
+                            region_type = H5Sget_select_type(region_space);
+                            if(region_type == H5S_SEL_POINTS)
+                                /* Print point information */
+                                dimension_break = h5tools_dump_region_data_points(
+                                                       region_space, region_id, stream, info, ctx,
+                                                       &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, i, elmt_counter);
+                            else if(region_type == H5S_SEL_HYPERSLABS)
+                                /* Print block information */
+                                dimension_break = h5tools_dump_region_data_blocks(
+                                                       region_space, region_id, stream, info, ctx,
+                                                       &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, i, elmt_counter);
+                            else
+                                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "invalid region type");
+                            /* Render the region element end */
+
+                        } /* end else to if (h5tools_is_zero(... */
+                        if(H5Sclose(region_space) < 0)
+                            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
+                    } /* end if (region_space >= 0) */
+                    else
+                        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Rget_region failed");
+                    if(H5Dclose(region_id) < 0)
+                        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dclose failed");
+
+                } /* if (region_id >= 0) */
+                else
+                    HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Rdereference failed");
+
+                ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                
+                if(FALSE == dimension_break)
+                    elmt_counter = 0;
+            } /* end for (i = 0; i < nelmts... */
+        } /* end if (region_output... */
+        else {
+            for (i = 0; i < nelmts; i++, ctx->cur_elmt++, elmt_counter++) {
+                void* memref = mem + i * size;
+                /* Render the data element begin*/
+                h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                h5tools_str_sprint(&buffer, info, container, type, memref, ctx);
+
+                if (i + 1 < nelmts || (flags & END_OF_DATA) == 0)
+                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", OPT(info->elmt_suf1, ","));
+
+                dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer,
+                                                           &curr_pos, ncols, i, elmt_counter);
+                /* Render the data element end*/
+                if(FALSE == dimension_break)
+                    elmt_counter = 0;
+            } /* end for (i = 0; i < nelmts... */
+        }
+
+        h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
+    }/* else bin */
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Audience:    Public
+ * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
+ * Purpose: Print the data values from a dataset referenced by region blocks.
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *      This is a special case subfunction to print the data in a region reference of type blocks.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ *      The function returns FAIL if there was an error, otherwise SUCEED
+ *
+ * Parameters Description:
+ *      h5tools_str_t *buffer is the string into which to render
+ *      size_t ncols
+ *      int ndims is the number of dimensions of the region element
+ *      hssize_t nblocks is the number of blocks in the region
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+static int
+h5tools_print_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_id,
+        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *cur_ctx,
+        h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */, size_t ncols,
+        int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t nblocks, hsize_t *ptdata)
+{
+    hbool_t      dimension_break = TRUE;
+    hsize_t     *dims1 = NULL;
+    hsize_t     *start = NULL;
+    hsize_t     *count = NULL;
+    hsize_t      blkndx;
+    hsize_t      total_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];
+    hsize_t      elmtno; /* elemnt index  */
+    hsize_t      curr_pos = 0;
+    unsigned int region_flags; /* buffer extent flags */
+    size_t       numelem;
+    size_t       jndx;
+    int          indx;
+    int          type_size;
+    int          ret_value = SUCCEED;
+    hid_t        mem_space = -1;
+    hid_t        sid1 = -1;
+    h5tools_context_t ctx;
+    void        *region_buf = NULL;
+
+    assert(info);
+    assert(cur_ctx);
+    assert(buffer);
+    assert(ptdata);
+
+    memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
+    /* Get the dataspace of the dataset */
+    if((sid1 = H5Dget_space(region_id)) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dget_space failed");
+
+    /* Allocate space for the dimension array */
+    if((dims1 = (hsize_t *) HDmalloc(sizeof(hsize_t) * ndims)) == NULL)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for dims");
+
+    /* find the dimensions of each data space from the block coordinates */
+    numelem = 1;
+    for (jndx = 0; jndx < ndims; jndx++) {
+        dims1[jndx] = ptdata[jndx + ndims] - ptdata[jndx] + 1;
+        numelem = dims1[jndx] * numelem;
+    }
+
+    /* Create dataspace for reading buffer */
+    if((mem_space = H5Screate_simple(ndims, dims1, NULL)) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Screate_simple failed");
+
+    if((type_size = H5Tget_size(type_id)) == 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_size failed");
+
+    if((region_buf = HDmalloc(type_size * numelem)) == NULL)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate region buffer");
+
+    /* Select (x , x , ..., x ) x (y , y , ..., y ) hyperslab for reading memory dataset */
+    /*          1   2        n      1   2        n                                       */
+    if((start = (hsize_t *) HDmalloc(sizeof(hsize_t) * ndims)) == NULL)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for start");
+
+    if((count = (hsize_t *) HDmalloc(sizeof(hsize_t) * ndims)) == NULL)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for count");
+
+    curr_pos = 0;
+    ctx.indent_level = cur_ctx->indent_level;
+    ctx.cur_column = cur_ctx->cur_column;
+    ctx.prev_multiline = cur_ctx->prev_multiline;
+    ctx.ndims = ndims;
+    for (blkndx = 0; blkndx < nblocks; blkndx++) {
+        ctx.need_prefix = TRUE;
+        ctx.cur_elmt = 0;
+        for (indx = 0; indx < ndims; indx++) {
+            start[indx] = ptdata[indx + blkndx * ndims * 2];
+            count[indx] = dims1[indx];
+        }
+
+        if(H5Sselect_hyperslab(sid1, H5S_SELECT_SET, start, NULL, count, NULL) < 0)
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sselect_hyperslab failed");
+
+        if(H5Dread(region_id, type_id, mem_space, sid1, H5P_DEFAULT, region_buf) < 0)
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dread failed");
+
+        ctx.indent_level++;
+        if(H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(mem_space, total_size, NULL) < 0)
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_dims failed");
+
+        /* assume entire data space to be printed */
+        for (indx = 0; indx < (size_t) ctx.ndims; indx++)
+            ctx.p_min_idx[indx] = start[indx];
+        init_acc_pos(&ctx, total_size);
+
+        /* print the data */
+        region_flags = START_OF_DATA;
+        if (blkndx == nblocks - 1)
+            region_flags |= END_OF_DATA;
+
+        for (indx = 0; indx < (size_t)ctx.ndims; indx++)
+            ctx.p_max_idx[indx] = dims1[indx];
+
+        curr_pos = 0;
+        ctx.sm_pos = blkndx*2*ndims;
+        ctx.size_last_dim = dims1[ndims-1];
+
+        h5tools_region_simple_prefix(stream, info, &ctx, curr_pos, ptdata, 0);
+
+        elmtno = 0;
+        for (jndx = 0; jndx < numelem; jndx++, elmtno++, ctx.cur_elmt++) {
+            /* Render the region data element begin */
+            h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", jndx ? OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK "" : "");
+            h5tools_str_sprint(buffer, info, region_id, type_id,
+                                ((char*)region_buf + jndx * type_size), &ctx);
+
+            if (jndx + 1 < numelem || (region_flags & END_OF_DATA) == 0)
+                h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", OPT(info->elmt_suf1, ","));
+
+            dimension_break = h5tools_render_region_element(stream, info, &ctx, buffer, &curr_pos,
+                                                                    ncols, ptdata, jndx, elmtno);
+            /* Render the region data element end */
+
+            if(FALSE == dimension_break)
+                elmtno = 0;
+        } /* end for (jndx = 0; jndx < numelem; jndx++, region_elmtno++, ctx.cur_elmt++) */
+
+        ctx.indent_level--;
+    } /* end for (blkndx = 0; blkndx < nblocks; blkndx++) */
+
+ done:
+    HDfree(start);
+    HDfree(count);
+    HDfree(region_buf);
+    HDfree(dims1);
+
+    if(H5Sclose(mem_space) < 0)
+        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
+    if(H5Sclose(sid1) < 0)
+        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
+
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Audience:    Public
+ * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
+ * Purpose: Print some values from a dataset referenced by region blocks.
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *      This is a special case subfunction to dump a region reference using blocks.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ *      The function returns False if the last dimension has been reached, otherwise True
+ *
+ * In/Out:
+ *      h5tools_context_t *ctx
+ *      hsize_t *curr_pos
+ *
+ * Parameters Description:
+ *      h5tools_str_t *buffer is the string into which to render
+ *      hsize_t curr_pos is the total data element position
+ *      size_t ncols
+ *      hsize_t region_elmt_counter is the region element loop counter
+ *      hsize_t elmt_count is the data element loop counter
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+hbool_t
+h5tools_dump_region_data_blocks(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
+        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
+        h5tools_str_t *buffer/*string into which to render */,
+        hsize_t *curr_pos/*total data element position*/,
+        size_t ncols, hsize_t region_elmt_counter/*element counter*/,
+        hsize_t elmt_counter)
+{
+    HERR_INIT(hbool_t, TRUE)
+    hbool_t      dimension_break = TRUE;
+    hssize_t     nblocks;
+    hsize_t      alloc_size;
+    hsize_t     *ptdata = NULL;
+    int          ndims;
+    hid_t        dtype = -1;
+    hid_t        type_id = -1;
+    int          i;
+
+    assert(info);
+    assert(ctx);
+    assert(buffer);
+
+    if((nblocks = H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks(region_space)) <= 0)
+        H5E_THROW(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_hyper_nblocks failed");
+
+    /* Print block information */
+    if((ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(region_space)) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims failed");
+
+    /* Render the region { element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "{");
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the region { element end */
+
+    ctx->indent_level++;
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    /* Render the region datatype info and indices element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "REGION_TYPE BLOCK  ");
+
+    alloc_size = nblocks * ndims * 2 * sizeof(ptdata[0]);
+    assert(alloc_size == (hsize_t) ((size_t) alloc_size)); /*check for overflow*/
+    if((ptdata = (hsize_t*) malloc((size_t) alloc_size)) == NULL)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for ptdata");
+
+    H5_CHECK_OVERFLOW(nblocks, hssize_t, hsize_t);
+    if(H5Sget_select_hyper_blocklist(region_space, (hsize_t) 0, (hsize_t) nblocks, ptdata) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Rget_select_hyper_blocklist failed");
+
+    for (i = 0; i < nblocks; i++) {
+        int j;
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, info->dset_blockformat_pre,
+                            i ? "," OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK " " : "", (unsigned long) i);
+
+        /* Start coordinates and opposite corner */
+        for (j = 0; j < ndims; j++)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s%lu", j ? "," : "(",
+                                (unsigned long) ptdata[i * 2 * ndims + j]);
+
+        for (j = 0; j < ndims; j++)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s%lu", j ? "," : ")-(",
+                                (unsigned long) ptdata[i * 2 * ndims + j + ndims]);
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, ")");
+    } /* end for (i = 0; i < nblocks; i++) */
+
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the region datatype info and indices element end */
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    if((dtype = H5Dget_type(region_id)) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dget_type failed");
+    if((type_id = H5Tget_native_type(dtype, H5T_DIR_DEFAULT)) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_native_type failed");
+
+    /* Render the datatype element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypebegin,
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockbegin);
+
+    ctx->indent_level++;
+    h5tools_print_datatype(stream, buffer, info, ctx, dtype, TRUE);
+    ctx->indent_level--;
+
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend)) {
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend);
+        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
+    }
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend);
+
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the datatype element end */
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    /* Render the dataspace element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacebegin);
+
+    h5tools_print_dataspace(stream, buffer, info, ctx, region_space);
+
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend)) {
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend);
+        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
+    }
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend);
+
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the dataspace element end */
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    /* Render the databegin element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->databegin,
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockbegin);
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the databegin element end */
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    h5tools_print_region_data_blocks(region_id, rawdatastream, info, ctx,
+        buffer, ncols, ndims, type_id, nblocks, ptdata);
+
+ done:
+    free(ptdata);
+
+    if(H5Tclose(type_id) < 0)
+        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+
+    if(H5Tclose(dtype) < 0)
+        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    /* Render the dataend element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->dataend,
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockend);
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos,
+                                                ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the dataend element end */
+
+    ctx->indent_level--;
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    /* Render the region } element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "}");
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos,
+                                                ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the region } element end */
+
+    H5_LEAVE(dimension_break)
+
+ CATCH
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Audience:    Public
+ * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
+ * Purpose: Print the data values from a dataset referenced by region points.
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *      This is a special case subfunction to print the data in a region reference of type points.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ *      The function returns FAIL on error, otherwise SUCCEED
+ *
+ * Parameters Description:
+ *      h5tools_str_t *buffer is the string into which to render
+ *      size_t ncols
+ *      int ndims is the number of dimensions of the region element
+ *      hssize_t npoints is the number of points in the region
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+int
+h5tools_print_region_data_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
+        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *cur_ctx,
+        h5tools_str_t *buffer, size_t ncols,
+        int ndims, hid_t type_id, hssize_t npoints, hsize_t *ptdata)
+{
+    hbool_t  dimension_break = TRUE;
+    hsize_t *dims1 = NULL;
+    hsize_t  elmtno; /* elemnt index  */
+    hsize_t  curr_pos = 0;
+    hsize_t  total_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];
+    size_t   jndx;
+    int      indx;
+    int      type_size;
+    int      ret_value = SUCCEED;
+    unsigned int region_flags; /* buffer extent flags */
+    hid_t    mem_space = -1;
+    void    *region_buf = NULL;
+    h5tools_context_t ctx;
+
+    assert(info);
+    assert(cur_ctx);
+    assert(buffer);
+    assert(ptdata);
+
+    memset(&ctx, 0, sizeof(ctx));
+    /* Allocate space for the dimension array */
+    if((dims1 = (hsize_t *) HDmalloc(sizeof(hsize_t) * ndims)) == NULL)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for dims");
+
+    dims1[0] = npoints;
+    
+    /* Create dataspace for reading buffer */
+    if((mem_space = H5Screate_simple(1, dims1, NULL)) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Screate_simple failed");
+
+    if((type_size = H5Tget_size(type_id)) == 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_size failed");
+
+    if((region_buf = HDmalloc(type_size * npoints)) == NULL)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for region");
+
+    curr_pos = 0;
+    ctx.indent_level = cur_ctx->indent_level;
+    ctx.cur_column = cur_ctx->cur_column;
+    ctx.prev_multiline = cur_ctx->prev_multiline;
+    ctx.ndims = ndims;
+
+    if(H5Dread(region_id, type_id, mem_space, region_space, H5P_DEFAULT, region_buf) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dread failed");
+
+    elmtno = 0;
+    for (jndx = 0; jndx < npoints; jndx++, elmtno++) {
+        ctx.need_prefix = TRUE;
+        ctx.cur_elmt = 0;    /* points are always 0 */
+
+        ctx.indent_level++;
+        if(H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(mem_space, total_size, NULL) < 0)
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_dims failed");
+
+        /* assume entire data space to be printed */
+        for (indx = 0; indx < (size_t) ctx.ndims; indx++)
+            ctx.p_min_idx[indx] = 0;
+        init_acc_pos(&ctx, total_size);
+
+        /* print the data */
+        region_flags = START_OF_DATA;
+        if (jndx == npoints - 1)
+            region_flags |= END_OF_DATA;
+
+        for (indx = 0; indx < (size_t)ctx.ndims; indx++)
+            ctx.p_max_idx[indx] = cur_ctx->p_max_idx[indx];
+
+        ctx.sm_pos = jndx * ndims;
+        if (ctx.ndims > 0) {
+            ctx.size_last_dim = (int) (ctx.p_max_idx[ctx.ndims - 1]);
+        }
+        else
+            ctx.size_last_dim = 0;
+
+        curr_pos = 0;    /* points requires constant 0 */
+        h5tools_region_simple_prefix(stream, info, &ctx, curr_pos, ptdata, 0);
+
+        /* Render the point element begin */
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", jndx ? OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK "" : "");
+        h5tools_str_sprint(buffer, info, region_id, type_id,
+                               ((char*)region_buf + jndx * type_size), &ctx);
+
+        if (jndx + 1 < npoints || (region_flags & END_OF_DATA) == 0)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", OPT(info->elmt_suf1, ","));
+
+        dimension_break = h5tools_render_region_element(stream, info, &ctx, buffer, &curr_pos,
+                                                                ncols, ptdata, (hsize_t)0, elmtno);
+        /* Render the point element end */
+        if(FALSE == dimension_break)
+            elmtno = 0;
+
+        ctx.indent_level--;
+    } /* end for (jndx = 0; jndx < npoints; jndx++, elmtno++) */
+
+ done:
+    HDfree(region_buf);
+    HDfree(dims1);
+
+    if(H5Sclose(mem_space) < 0)
+        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
+
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Audience:    Public
+ * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
+ * Purpose: Print some values from a dataset referenced by region points.
+ *
+ * Description:
+ *      This is a special case subfunction to dump a region reference using points.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ *      The function returns False if the last dimension has been reached, otherwise True
+ *
+ * In/Out:
+ *      h5tools_context_t *ctx
+ *      hsize_t *curr_pos
+ *
+ * Parameters Description:
+ *      h5tools_str_t *buffer is the string into which to render
+ *      hsize_t curr_pos is the total data element position
+ *      size_t ncols
+ *      hsize_t region_elmt_counter is the region element loop counter
+ *      hsize_t elmt_count is the data element loop counter
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+hbool_t
+h5tools_dump_region_data_points(hid_t region_space, hid_t region_id,
+        FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx,
+        h5tools_str_t *buffer, hsize_t *curr_pos, size_t ncols, hsize_t region_elmt_counter,
+        hsize_t elmt_counter) {
+    HERR_INIT(hbool_t, TRUE)
+    hbool_t  dimension_break = TRUE;
+    hssize_t npoints;
+    hsize_t  alloc_size;
+    hsize_t *ptdata;
+    int      ndims;
+    hssize_t indx;
+    hid_t    dtype;
+    hid_t    type_id;
+
+    assert(info);
+    assert(ctx);
+    assert(buffer);
+
+    if((npoints = H5Sget_select_elem_npoints(region_space)) <= 0)
+        H5E_THROW(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_elem_npoints failed");
+
+    /* Allocate space for the dimension array */
+    if((ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(region_space)) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims failed");
+
+    /* Render the region { element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "{");
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the region { element end */
+
+    /* Render the region datatype info and indices element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+    ctx->indent_level++;
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "REGION_TYPE POINT  ");
+
+    alloc_size = npoints * ndims * sizeof(ptdata[0]);
+    assert(alloc_size == (hsize_t) ((size_t) alloc_size)); /*check for overflow*/
+    if(NULL == (ptdata = (hsize_t *)HDmalloc((size_t) alloc_size)))
+        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for ptdata");
+
+    H5_CHECK_OVERFLOW(npoints, hssize_t, hsize_t);
+    if(H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist(region_space, (hsize_t) 0, (hsize_t) npoints, ptdata) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist failed");
+
+    for (indx = 0; indx < npoints; indx++) {
+        int loop_indx;
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, info->dset_ptformat_pre,
+                            indx ? "," OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK " " : "", (unsigned long) indx);
+
+        for (loop_indx = 0; loop_indx < ndims; loop_indx++)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s%lu", loop_indx ? "," : "(",
+                                (unsigned long) (ptdata[indx * ndims + loop_indx]));
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, ")");
+    } /* end for (indx = 0; indx < npoints; indx++) */
+
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the region datatype info and indices element end */
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    if((dtype = H5Dget_type(region_id)) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dget_type failed");
+
+    if((type_id = H5Tget_native_type(dtype, H5T_DIR_DEFAULT)) < 0)
+        HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_native_type failed");
+
+    /* Render the datatype element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypebegin,
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockbegin);
+
+    ctx->indent_level++;
+    h5tools_print_datatype(stream, buffer, info, ctx, dtype, TRUE);
+    ctx->indent_level--;
+
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend)) {
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend);
+        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
+    }
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend);
+
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the datatype element end */
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    /* Render the dataspace element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacebegin);
+
+    h5tools_print_dataspace(stream, buffer, info, ctx, region_space);
+
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend)) {
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend);
+        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
+    }
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend);
+
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the dataspace element end */
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    /* Render the databegin element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->databegin,
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockbegin);
+
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos, ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    h5tools_print_region_data_points(region_space, region_id,
+            rawdatastream, info, ctx, buffer, ncols, ndims, type_id, npoints, ptdata);
+
+ done:
+    free(ptdata);
+
+    if(H5Tclose(type_id) < 0)
+        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+
+    if(H5Tclose(dtype) < 0)
+        HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    /* Render the dataend element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s ",
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->dataend,
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockend);
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos,
+                                              ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the dataend element end*/
+
+    ctx->indent_level--;
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+    /* Render the region } element begin */
+    h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "}");
+    dimension_break = h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, curr_pos,
+                                                ncols, region_elmt_counter, elmt_counter);
+    /* Render the region } element end */
+
+    H5_LEAVE(dimension_break)
+CATCH
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Audience:    Public
+ * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
+ * Purpose:     print out the data for a subset of a dataset.
+ * Description:
+ *
+ *  Select a hyperslab from the dataset DSET using the parameters
+ *   specified in SSET. Dump this out to STREAM.
+ *
+ *  Hyperslabs select "count" blocks of size "block", spaced "stride" elements
+ *   from each other, starting at coordinate "start".
+ *
+ * Return:
+ *      On success, return SUCCEED. Otherwise, the function returns FAIL.
+ *
+ * Algorithm
+ *
+ * The parameters from SSET are translated into temporary
+ * variables so that 1 row is printed at a time (getting the coordinate indices
+ * at each row).
+ * We define the stride, count and block to be 1 in the row dimension to achieve
+ * this and advance until all points are printed.
+ *
+ * The element position is obtained from the matrix according to:
+ *       Given an index I(z,y,x) its position from the beginning of an array
+ *       of sizes A(size_z, size_y,size_x) is given by
+ *       Position of I(z,y,x) = index_z * size_y * size_x
+ *                             + index_y * size_x
+ *                             + index_x
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+static herr_t
+h5tools_print_simple_subset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx,
+                           hid_t dset, hid_t p_type, struct subset_t *sset,
+                           hid_t f_space, hsize_t hyperslab_count,
+                           hsize_t *temp_start,/* start inside offset count loop */
+                           hsize_t *temp_count,/* count inside offset count loop  */
+                           hsize_t *temp_block,/* block size used in loop  */
+                           hsize_t *temp_stride,/* stride size used in loop  */
+                           hsize_t *total_size,/* total size of dataset */
+                           unsigned int row_dim/* index of row_counter dimension */)
+{
+    HERR_INIT(herr_t, SUCCEED)
+    size_t            i;                       /* counters  */
+    size_t            j;                       /* counters  */
+    hsize_t           zero[1] = {0};           /* vector of zeros */
+    unsigned int      flags;                   /* buffer extent flags */
+    hsize_t           elmtno;                  /* elemnt index  */
+    hsize_t           low[H5S_MAX_RANK];       /* low bound of hyperslab */
+    hsize_t           high[H5S_MAX_RANK];      /* higher bound of hyperslab */
+    size_t            p_type_nbytes;           /* size of memory type */
+    hsize_t           sm_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];   /* stripmine size */
+    hsize_t           sm_nbytes;               /* bytes per stripmine */
+    hssize_t          ssm_nelmts;              /* elements per stripmine*/
+    hsize_t           sm_nelmts;               /* elements per stripmine*/
+    unsigned char    *sm_buf = NULL;           /* buffer for raw data */
+    hid_t             sm_space = -1;           /* stripmine data space */
+    hsize_t           size_row_block;          /* size for blocks along rows */
+    hsize_t           row_counter = 0;
+
+    /* VL data special information */
+    unsigned int        vl_data = 0; /* contains VL datatypes */
+
+    if ((size_t) ctx->ndims > NELMTS(sm_size))
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "ndims and sm_size comparision failed");
+
+    if (ctx->ndims > 0)
+        init_acc_pos(ctx, total_size);
+
+    size_row_block = sset->block.data[row_dim];
+
+    /* Check if we have VL data in the dataset's datatype */
+    if (h5tools_detect_vlen_str(p_type) == TRUE)
+        vl_data = TRUE;
+    if (H5Tdetect_class(p_type, H5T_VLEN) == TRUE)
+        vl_data = TRUE;
+
+    /* display loop */
+    for (; hyperslab_count > 0; temp_start[row_dim] += temp_stride[row_dim], hyperslab_count--) {
+        /* jump rows if size of block exceeded
+         cases where block > 1 only and stride > block */
+        if (size_row_block > 1
+                && row_counter == size_row_block
+                && sset->stride.data[row_dim] > sset->block.data[row_dim]) {
+
+            hsize_t increase_rows = sset->stride.data[row_dim] - sset->block.data[row_dim];
+            temp_start[row_dim] += increase_rows;
+            row_counter = 0;
+        }
+
+        row_counter++;
+
+        /* calculate the potential number of elements we're going to print */
+        if(H5Sselect_hyperslab(f_space, H5S_SELECT_SET, temp_start, temp_stride, temp_count, temp_block) < 0)
+            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sselect_hyperslab failed");
+
+        if((ssm_nelmts = H5Sget_select_npoints(f_space)) < 0)
+            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_npoints failed");
+        sm_nelmts = (hsize_t)ssm_nelmts;
+
+        if (sm_nelmts > 0) {
+            /*
+             * determine the strip mine size and allocate a buffer. the strip mine is
+             * a hyperslab whose size is manageable.
+             */
+            if((sm_nbytes = p_type_nbytes = H5Tget_size(p_type)) == 0)
+                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_size failed");
+
+            if (ctx->ndims > 0)
+                for (i = ctx->ndims; i > 0; --i) {
+                    hsize_t size = H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE / sm_nbytes;
+                    if (size == 0) /* datum size > H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE */
+                        size = 1;
+                    sm_size[i - 1] = MIN(total_size[i - 1], size);
+                    sm_nbytes *= sm_size[i - 1];
+                    assert(sm_nbytes > 0);
+                }
+
+            assert(sm_nbytes == (hsize_t) ((size_t) sm_nbytes)); /*check for overflow*/
+            if(NULL == (sm_buf = (unsigned char *)HDmalloc((size_t) sm_nelmts * p_type_nbytes)))
+                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for strip-mine");
+
+            if((sm_space = H5Screate_simple(1, &sm_nelmts, NULL)) < 0)
+                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Screate_simple failed");
+
+            if(H5Sselect_hyperslab(sm_space, H5S_SELECT_SET, zero, NULL, &sm_nelmts, NULL) < 0)
+                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sselect_hyperslab failed");
+
+            /* read the data */
+            if(H5Dread(dset, p_type, sm_space, f_space, H5P_DEFAULT, sm_buf) < 0)
+                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dread failed");
+
+            /* print the data */
+            flags = START_OF_DATA;
+
+            if (hyperslab_count == 1)
+                flags |= END_OF_DATA;
+
+            for (i = 0; i < ctx->ndims; i++)
+                ctx->p_max_idx[i] = ctx->p_min_idx[i] + MIN(total_size[i], sm_size[i]);
+
+            /* print array indices. get the lower bound of the hyperslab and calulate
+             the element position at the start of hyperslab */
+            if(H5Sget_select_bounds(f_space, low, high) < 0)
+                H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_select_bounds failed");
+
+            elmtno = 0;
+            for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx->ndims - 1; i++) {
+                hsize_t offset = 1; /* accumulation of the previous dimensions */
+                for (j = i + 1; j < (size_t) ctx->ndims; j++)
+                    offset *= total_size[j];
+                elmtno += low[i] * offset;
+            }
+            elmtno += low[ctx->ndims - 1];
+
+            /* initialize the current stripmine position; this is necessary to print the array
+             indices */
+            ctx->sm_pos = elmtno;
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+            h5tools_dump_simple_data(stream, info, dset, ctx, flags, sm_nelmts, p_type, sm_buf);
+
+            /* Reclaim any VL memory, if necessary */
+            if (vl_data)
+                H5Dvlen_reclaim(p_type, sm_space, H5P_DEFAULT, sm_buf);
+
+            if(H5Sclose(sm_space) < 0)
+                H5E_THROW(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
+            if(sm_buf)
+                HDfree(sm_buf);
+            sm_buf = NULL;
+        }
+        else
+            H5E_THROW(SUCCEED, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "nothing to print");
+
+        ctx->continuation++;
+
+    } /* hyperslab_count loop */
+
+CATCH
+    if(sm_buf)
+        HDfree(sm_buf);
+
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Audience:    Public
+ * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
+ * Purpose:     print out the data for a subset of a dataset.
+ * Description:
+ *
+ *  Select a hyperslab from the dataset DSET using the parameters
+ *   specified in SSET. Dump this out to STREAM.
+ *
+ *  Hyperslabs select "count" blocks of size "block", spaced "stride" elements
+ *   from each other, starting at coordinate "start".
+ *
+ * Return:
+ *      On success, return SUCCEED. Otherwise, the function returns FAIL.
+ *
+ * Algorithm
+ *
+ * The parameters from SSET are translated into temporary
+ * variables so that 1 row is printed at a time (getting the coordinate indices
+ * at each row).
+ * We define the stride, count and block to be 1 in the row dimension to achieve
+ * this and advance until all points are printed.
+ *
+ * The element position is obtained from the matrix according to:
+ *       Given an index I(z,y,x) its position from the beginning of an array
+ *       of sizes A(size_z, size_y,size_x) is given by
+ *       Position of I(z,y,x) = index_z * size_y * size_x
+ *                             + index_y * size_x
+ *                             + index_x
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+static herr_t
+h5tools_display_simple_subset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx,
+                           hid_t dset, hid_t p_type, struct subset_t *sset,
+                           hid_t f_space, hsize_t *total_size)
+{
+    size_t            i;                       /* counters  */
+    hsize_t           n;                       /* counters  */
+    hsize_t           count;                   /* hyperslab count */
+    hsize_t           outer_count;             /* offset count */
+    unsigned int      row_dim;                 /* index of row_counter dimension */
+    int               current_outer_dim;       /* dimension for start */
+    hsize_t           temp_start[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* temporary start inside offset count loop */
+    hsize_t           max_start[H5S_MAX_RANK]; /* maximum start inside offset count loop */
+    hsize_t           temp_count[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* temporary count inside offset count loop  */
+    hsize_t           temp_block[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* temporary block size used in loop  */
+    hsize_t           temp_stride[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* temporary stride size used in loop  */
+    int               reset_dim;
+    herr_t            ret_value = SUCCEED;
+
+    if (ctx->ndims == 1)
+        row_dim = 0;
+    else
+        row_dim = ctx->ndims - 2;
+
+    /* get the offset count */
+    outer_count = 1;
+    if (ctx->ndims > 2)
+        for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx->ndims - 2; i++) {
+            /* block size is handled by containing h5tools_print_simple_subset call */
+            outer_count = outer_count * sset->count.data[i];
+        }
+
+    /* initialize temporary start, count and maximum start */
+    for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx->ndims; i++) {
+        temp_start[i] = sset->start.data[i];
+        temp_count[i] = sset->count.data[i];
+        temp_block[i] = sset->block.data[i];
+        temp_stride[i] = sset->stride.data[i];
+        max_start[i] = 0;
+    }
+
+    if (ctx->ndims > 2) {
+        for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx->ndims - 2; i++) {
+            max_start[i] = temp_start[i] + sset->count.data[i];
+            temp_count[i] = 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    /* offset loop */
+    for (n = 0; n < outer_count; n++) {
+        /* number of read iterations in inner loop, read by rows, to match 2D display */
+        if (ctx->ndims > 1) {
+            /* count is the number of iterations to display all the rows,
+             the block size count times */
+            count = sset->count.data[row_dim] * sset->block.data[row_dim];
+
+            /* always 1 row_counter at a time, that is a block of size 1, 1 time */
+            temp_count[row_dim] = 1;
+            temp_block[row_dim] = 1;
+
+            /* advance 1 row_counter at a time  */
+            if (sset->block.data[row_dim] > 1)
+                temp_stride[row_dim] = 1;
+        }
+        /* for the 1D case */
+        else {
+            count = 1;
+        }
+
+        h5tools_print_simple_subset(stream, info, ctx, dset, p_type, sset,
+                                   f_space, count, temp_start, temp_count,
+                                   temp_block, temp_stride, total_size, row_dim);
+
+        if (ctx->ndims > 2) {
+            /* dimension for start */
+            current_outer_dim = (ctx->ndims - 2) - 1;
+
+            /* set start to original from current_outer_dim up */
+            for (i = current_outer_dim + 1; i < ctx->ndims; i++) {
+                temp_start[i] = sset->start.data[i];
+            }
+
+            /* increment start dimension */
+            do {
+                reset_dim = 0;
+                temp_start[current_outer_dim]++;
+                if (temp_start[current_outer_dim] >= max_start[current_outer_dim]) {
+                    temp_start[current_outer_dim] = sset->start.data[current_outer_dim];
+
+                    /* consider block */
+                    if (sset->block.data[current_outer_dim] > 1)
+                        temp_start[current_outer_dim]++;
+
+                    current_outer_dim--;
+                    reset_dim = 1;
+                }
+            } while (current_outer_dim >= 0 && reset_dim);
+
+        } /* ctx.ndims > 1 */
+
+    } /* outer_count */
+
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Audience:    Public
+ * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
+ * Purpose:     Dump out a subset of a dataset.
+ * Description:
+ *
+ *  Select a hyperslab from the dataset DSET using the parameters
+ *   specified in SSET. Dump this out to STREAM.
+ *
+ *  Hyperslabs select "count" blocks of size "block", spaced "stride" elements
+ *   from each other, starting at coordinate "start".
+ *
+ * Return:
+ *      On success, return SUCCEED. Otherwise, the function returns FAIL.
+ *
+ * Original programmer:
+ *      Bill Wendling, Wednesday, March 07, 2001
+ *
+ * Rewritten with modified algorithm by:
+ *      Pedro Vicente, Wednesday, January 16, 2008, contributions from Quincey Koziol
+ *
+ * Algorithm
+ *
+ * In a inner loop, the parameters from SSET are translated into temporary
+ * variables so that 1 row is printed at a time (getting the coordinate indices
+ * at each row).
+ * We define the stride, count and block to be 1 in the row dimension to achieve
+ * this and advance until all points are printed.
+ * An outer loop for cases where dimensionality is greater than 2D is made.
+ * In each iteration, the 2D block is displayed in the inner loop. The remaining
+ * slower dimensions above the first 2 are incremented one at a time in the outer loop
+ *
+ * The element position is obtained from the matrix according to:
+ *       Given an index I(z,y,x) its position from the beginning of an array
+ *       of sizes A(size_z, size_y,size_x) is given by
+ *       Position of I(z,y,x) = index_z * size_y * size_x
+ *                             + index_y * size_x
+ *                             + index_x
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+static herr_t
+h5tools_dump_simple_subset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t dset,
+                           hid_t p_type, struct subset_t *sset)
+{
+    HERR_INIT(herr_t, SUCCEED)
+    int               sndims;
+    hid_t             f_space = -1;            /* file data space */
+    size_t            i;                       /* counters  */
+    hsize_t           total_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];/* total size of dataset*/
+
+    if((f_space = H5Dget_space(dset)) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Dget_space failed");
+    
+    if((sndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(f_space)) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims failed");
+    ctx->ndims = (unsigned)sndims;
+
+    /* assume entire data space to be printed */
+    if (ctx->ndims > 0)
+        for (i = 0; i < (size_t) ctx->ndims; i++)
+            ctx->p_min_idx[i] = 0;
+
+    if(H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(f_space, total_size, NULL) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_dims failed");
+    ctx->size_last_dim = total_size[ctx->ndims - 1];
+
+    h5tools_display_simple_subset(stream, info, ctx, dset, p_type, sset, f_space, total_size);
+
+CATCH
+    if(f_space >= 0 && H5Sclose(f_space) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sclose failed");
+
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Audience:    Public
+ * Chapter:     H5Tools Library
+ * Purpose: Print some values from a dataset with a simple data space.
+ * Description:
+ *      This is a special case of h5tools_dump_dset(). This function only
+ *      intended for dumping datasets -- it does strip mining and some other
+ *      things which are unnecessary for smaller objects such as attributes
+ *      (to print small objects like attributes simply read the attribute and
+ *      call h5tools_dump_simple_mem()).
+ * Return:
+ *      On success, the function returns SUCCEED. Otherwise, the function
+ *      returns FAIL.
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+static int
+h5tools_dump_simple_dset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx,
+                         hid_t dset, hid_t p_type)
+{
+    hid_t               f_space;                  /* file data space */
+    hsize_t             elmtno;                   /* counter  */
+    size_t              i;                        /* counter  */
+    int                 carry;                    /* counter carry value */
+    hsize_t             zero[8];                  /* vector of zeros */
+    unsigned int        flags;                    /* buffer extent flags */
+    hsize_t             total_size[H5S_MAX_RANK]; /* total size of dataset*/
+
+    /* Print info */
+    size_t              p_type_nbytes;            /* size of memory type */
+    hsize_t             p_nelmts;                 /* total selected elmts */
+
+    /* Stripmine info */
+    hsize_t             sm_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];    /* stripmine size */
+    hsize_t             sm_nbytes;                /* bytes per stripmine */
+    hsize_t             sm_nelmts;                /* elements per stripmine*/
+    unsigned char      *sm_buf = NULL;            /* buffer for raw data */
+    hid_t               sm_space;                 /* stripmine data space */
+
+    /* Hyperslab info */
+    hsize_t             hs_offset[H5S_MAX_RANK];  /* starting offset */
+    hsize_t             hs_size[H5S_MAX_RANK];    /* size this pass */
+    hsize_t             hs_nelmts;                /* elements in request */
+
+    /* VL data special information */
+    unsigned int        vl_data = 0; /* contains VL datatypes */
+
+    f_space = H5Dget_space(dset);
+
+    if (f_space == FAIL)
+        return FAIL;
+
+    ctx->ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(f_space);
+
+    if ((size_t)ctx->ndims > NELMTS(sm_size)) {
+        H5Sclose(f_space);
+        return FAIL;
+    }
+
+    /* Assume entire data space to be printed */
+    if (ctx->ndims > 0)
+        for (i = 0; i < (size_t)ctx->ndims; i++)
+            ctx->p_min_idx[i] = 0;
+
+    H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(f_space, total_size, NULL);
+
+    /* calculate the number of elements we're going to print */
+    p_nelmts = 1;
+
+    if (ctx->ndims > 0) {
+        for (i = 0; i < ctx->ndims; i++)
+            p_nelmts *= total_size[i];
+        ctx->size_last_dim = (total_size[ctx->ndims - 1]);
+    } /* end if */
+    else
+        ctx->size_last_dim = 0;
+
+    if (p_nelmts == 0) {
+        /* nothing to print */
+        H5Sclose(f_space);
+        return SUCCEED;
+    }
+
+    /* Check if we have VL data in the dataset's datatype */
+    if (h5tools_detect_vlen_str(p_type) == TRUE)
+        vl_data = TRUE;
+    if (H5Tdetect_class(p_type, H5T_VLEN) == TRUE)
+        vl_data = TRUE;
+
+    /*
+     * Determine the strip mine size and allocate a buffer. The strip mine is
+     * a hyperslab whose size is manageable.
+     */
+    sm_nbytes = p_type_nbytes = H5Tget_size(p_type);
+
+    if (ctx->ndims > 0) {
+        for (i = ctx->ndims; i > 0; --i) {
+            hsize_t size = H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE / sm_nbytes;
+            if ( size == 0) /* datum size > H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE */
+                size = 1;
+            sm_size[i - 1] = MIN(total_size[i - 1], size);
+            sm_nbytes *= sm_size[i - 1];
+            assert(sm_nbytes > 0);
+        }
+    }
+
+    if(!sm_nbytes)
+        goto done;
+
+    assert(sm_nbytes == (hsize_t)((size_t)sm_nbytes)); /*check for overflow*/
+    sm_buf = (unsigned char *)HDmalloc((size_t)sm_nbytes);
+
+    sm_nelmts = sm_nbytes / p_type_nbytes;
+    sm_space = H5Screate_simple(1, &sm_nelmts, NULL);
+
+    if (ctx->ndims > 0)
+        init_acc_pos(ctx, total_size);
+
+    /* The stripmine loop */
+    memset(hs_offset, 0, sizeof hs_offset);
+    memset(zero, 0, sizeof zero);
+
+    for (elmtno = 0; elmtno < p_nelmts; elmtno += hs_nelmts) {
+        /* Calculate the hyperslab size */
+        if (ctx->ndims > 0) {
+            for (i = 0, hs_nelmts = 1; i < ctx->ndims; i++) {
+                hs_size[i] = MIN(total_size[i] - hs_offset[i], sm_size[i]);
+                ctx->p_max_idx[i] = ctx->p_min_idx[i] + hs_size[i];
+                hs_nelmts *= hs_size[i];
+            }
+
+            H5Sselect_hyperslab(f_space, H5S_SELECT_SET, hs_offset, NULL, hs_size, NULL);
+            H5Sselect_hyperslab(sm_space, H5S_SELECT_SET, zero, NULL, &hs_nelmts, NULL);
+        }
+        else {
+            H5Sselect_all(f_space);
+            H5Sselect_all(sm_space);
+            hs_nelmts = 1;
+        }
+
+        /* Read the data */
+        if (H5Dread(dset, p_type, sm_space, f_space, H5P_DEFAULT, sm_buf) < 0) {
+            H5Sclose(f_space);
+            H5Sclose(sm_space);
+            free(sm_buf);
+            return FAIL;
+        }
+
+        /* Print the data */
+        flags = (elmtno == 0) ? START_OF_DATA : 0;
+        flags |= ((elmtno + hs_nelmts) >= p_nelmts) ? END_OF_DATA : 0;
+
+        /* initialize the current stripmine position; this is necessary to print the array
+         indices */
+        ctx->sm_pos = elmtno;
+
+        h5tools_dump_simple_data(stream, info, dset, ctx, flags, hs_nelmts, p_type, sm_buf);
+
+        /* Reclaim any VL memory, if necessary */
+        if (vl_data)
+            H5Dvlen_reclaim(p_type, sm_space, H5P_DEFAULT, sm_buf);
+
+        /* Calculate the next hyperslab offset */
+        for (i = ctx->ndims, carry = 1; i > 0 && carry; --i) {
+            ctx->p_min_idx[i - 1] = ctx->p_max_idx[i - 1];
+            hs_offset[i - 1] += hs_size[i - 1];
+
+            if (hs_offset[i - 1] == total_size[i - 1])
+                hs_offset[i - 1] = 0;
+            else
+                carry = 0;
+        }
+
+        ctx->continuation++;
+    }
+
+    HDfree(sm_buf);
+
+done:
+    H5Sclose(sm_space);
+    H5Sclose(f_space);
+
+    return SUCCEED;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function: h5tools_dump_simple_mem
+ *
+ * Purpose: Print some values from memory with a simple data space.
+ *  This is a special case of h5tools_dump_mem().
+ *
+ * Return: Success:    SUCCEED
+ *         Failure:    FAIL
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+static int
+h5tools_dump_simple_mem(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t obj_id,
+                        hid_t type, hid_t space, void *mem)
+{
+    int                 i; /*counters  */
+    hsize_t        nelmts; /*total selected elmts */
+
+    ctx->ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(space);
+
+    if ((size_t) ctx->ndims > NELMTS(ctx->p_min_idx))
+        return FAIL;
+
+    /* Assume entire data space to be printed */
+    for (i = 0; i < ctx->ndims; i++)
+        ctx->p_min_idx[i] = 0;
+
+    H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(space, ctx->p_max_idx, NULL);
+
+    for (i = 0, nelmts = 1; ctx->ndims != 0 && i < ctx->ndims; i++)
+        nelmts *= ctx->p_max_idx[i] - ctx->p_min_idx[i];
+
+    if (nelmts == 0)
+        return SUCCEED; /*nothing to print*/
+    if (ctx->ndims > 0) {
+        assert(ctx->p_max_idx[ctx->ndims - 1] == (hsize_t) ((int) ctx->p_max_idx[ctx->ndims - 1]));
+        ctx->size_last_dim = (int) (ctx->p_max_idx[ctx->ndims - 1]);
+    } /* end if */
+    else
+        ctx->size_last_dim = 0;
+
+    if (ctx->ndims > 0)
+        init_acc_pos(ctx, ctx->p_max_idx);
+
+    h5tools_dump_simple_data(stream, info, obj_id, ctx, START_OF_DATA | END_OF_DATA, nelmts, type, mem);
+
+    return SUCCEED;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function: h5tools_dump_dset
+ *
+ * Purpose: Print some values from a dataset DSET to the file STREAM
+ *  after converting all types to P_TYPE (which should be a
+ *  native type).  If P_TYPE is a negative value then it will be
+ *  computed from the dataset type using only native types.
+ *
+ * Note: This function is intended only for datasets since it does
+ *  some things like strip mining which are unnecessary for
+ *  smaller objects such as attributes. The easiest way to print
+ *  small objects is to read the object into memory and call
+ *  h5tools_dump_mem().
+ *
+ * Return: Success:    SUCCEED
+ *         Failure:    FAIL
+ *
+ * Modifications:
+ *   Robb Matzke, 1999-06-07
+ *      If info->raw is set then the memory datatype will be the same
+ *      as the file datatype.
+ *
+ *  Bill Wendling, 2001-02-27
+ *      Renamed to ``h5tools_dump_dset'' and added the subsetting
+ *      parameter.
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+int
+h5tools_dump_dset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx, 
+        hid_t dset, hid_t _p_type, struct subset_t *sset)
+{
+    hid_t     f_space;
+    hid_t     p_type = _p_type;
+    hid_t     f_type;
+    H5S_class_t space_type;
+    int       status = FAIL;
+    h5tool_format_t info_dflt;
+    /* Use default values */
+    if (!stream)
+        stream = stdout;
+
+    if (!info) {
+        memset(&info_dflt, 0, sizeof info_dflt);
+        info = &info_dflt;
+    }
+
+    if (p_type < 0) {
+        f_type = H5Dget_type(dset);
+
+        if (info->raw || bin_form == 1)
+            p_type = H5Tcopy(f_type);
+        else if (bin_form == 2)
+            p_type = h5tools_get_little_endian_type(f_type);
+        else if (bin_form == 3)
+            p_type = h5tools_get_big_endian_type(f_type);
+        else
+            p_type = h5tools_get_native_type(f_type);
+
+        H5Tclose(f_type);
+
+        if (p_type < 0)
+            goto done;
+    }
+
+    /* Check the data space */
+    f_space = H5Dget_space(dset);
+
+    space_type = H5Sget_simple_extent_type(f_space);
+
+    /* Print the data */
+    if (space_type == H5S_SIMPLE || space_type == H5S_SCALAR) {
+        if(!sset)
+            status = h5tools_dump_simple_dset(rawdatastream, info, ctx, dset, p_type);
+        else
+            status = h5tools_dump_simple_subset(stream, info, ctx, dset, p_type, sset);
+    }
+    else
+        /* space is H5S_NULL */
+        status = SUCCEED;
+
+    /* Close the dataspace */
+    H5Sclose(f_space);
+
+done:
+    if (p_type != _p_type)
+        H5Tclose(p_type);
+
+    return status;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function: h5tools_dump_mem
+ *
+ * Purpose: Displays the data contained in MEM. MEM must have the
+ *  specified data TYPE and SPACE.  Currently only simple data
+ *  spaces are allowed and only the `all' selection.
+ *
+ * Return: Success:    SUCCEED
+ *         Failure:    FAIL
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+int
+h5tools_dump_mem(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx, 
+                hid_t obj_id, hid_t type, hid_t space, void *mem)
+{
+    HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
+    h5tool_format_t    info_dflt;
+
+    /* Use default values */
+    if (!stream)
+        stream = stdout;
+
+    if (!info) {
+        memset(&info_dflt, 0, sizeof(info_dflt));
+        info = &info_dflt;
+    }
+
+    /* Check the data space */
+    if (H5Sis_simple(space) <= 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sis_simple failed")
+
+     H5_LEAVE(h5tools_dump_simple_mem(stream, info, ctx, obj_id, type, space, mem))
+
+CATCH
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    print_datatype
+ *
+ * Purpose:     print the datatype - do not prefix.
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * In/Out:      h5tools_str_t *buffer
+ *              h5tools_context_t *ctx
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+int
+h5tools_print_datatype(FILE *stream, h5tools_str_t *buffer, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t type, int object_search)
+{
+    HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
+    char        *mname;
+    hid_t        mtype = -1;
+    hid_t        str_type = -1;
+    hid_t        super = -1;
+    hid_t        tmp_type = -1;
+    int          snmembers;
+    int          sndims;
+    unsigned     nmembers;
+    unsigned     i;
+    size_t       size = 0;
+    size_t       ncols = 80; /*available output width */
+    hsize_t      dims[H5TOOLS_DUMP_MAX_RANK];
+    hsize_t      curr_pos = 0;        /* total data element position   */
+    H5T_str_t    str_pad;
+    H5T_cset_t   cset;
+    H5T_order_t  order;
+    H5T_class_t  type_class;
+    H5T_sign_t   sign;           /* sign scheme value */
+    htri_t       is_vlstr = FALSE;
+    const char  *sign_s = NULL;  /* sign scheme string */
+    const char  *order_s = NULL; /* byte order string */
+
+    if((type_class = H5Tget_class(type)) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_class failed");
+    if (object_search && H5Tcommitted(type) > 0) {
+        H5O_info_t  oinfo;
+        obj_t      *obj = NULL;    /* Found object */
+
+        H5Oget_info(type, &oinfo);
+        obj = search_obj(h5dump_type_table, oinfo.addr);
+
+        if(obj) {
+            if(!obj->recorded) {
+                h5tools_str_append(buffer,"\"/#"H5_PRINTF_HADDR_FMT"\"", obj->objno);
+            }
+            else
+                h5tools_str_append(buffer, "\"%s\"", obj->objname);
+        } 
+        else {
+            error_msg("unknown committed type.\n");
+            h5tools_setstatus(EXIT_FAILURE);
+        }
+
+        return ret_value;
+    } 
+    
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+    
+    switch (type_class) {
+    case H5T_INTEGER:
+        if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I8BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I8BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I8LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I8LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I16BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I16BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I16LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I16LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I32BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I32BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I32LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I32LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I64BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I64BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_I64LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_I64LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U8BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U8BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U8LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U8LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U16BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U16BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U16LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U16LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U32BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U32BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U32LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U32LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U64BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U64BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_U64LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_U64LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_SCHAR) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_SCHAR");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_UCHAR) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_UCHAR");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_SHORT) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_SHORT");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_USHORT) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_USHORT");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_INT) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_INT");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_UINT) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_UINT");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_LONG) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_LONG");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_ULONG) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_ULONG");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_LLONG) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_LLONG");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_ULLONG) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_ULLONG");
+        }
+        else {
+
+            /* byte order */
+            if (H5Tget_size(type) > 1) {
+                order = H5Tget_order(type);
+                if (H5T_ORDER_LE == order) {
+                    order_s = " little-endian";
+                }
+                else if (H5T_ORDER_BE == order) {
+                    order_s = " big-endian";
+                }
+                else if (H5T_ORDER_VAX == order) {
+                    order_s = " mixed-endian";
+                }
+                else {
+                    order_s = " unknown-byte-order";
+                }
+            }
+            else {
+                order_s = "";
+            }
+
+            /* sign */
+            if ((sign = H5Tget_sign(type)) >= 0) {
+                if (H5T_SGN_NONE == sign) {
+                    sign_s = " unsigned";
+                }
+                else if (H5T_SGN_2 == sign) {
+                    sign_s = "";
+                }
+                else {
+                    sign_s = " unknown-sign";
+                }
+            }
+            else {
+                sign_s = " unknown-sign";
+            }
+
+            /* print size, order, and sign  */
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%lu-bit%s%s integer",
+                                (unsigned long) (8 * H5Tget_size(type)), order_s, sign_s);
+        }
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_FLOAT:
+        if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_IEEE_F32BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_IEEE_F32BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_IEEE_F32LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_IEEE_F32LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_IEEE_F64BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_IEEE_F64BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_IEEE_F64LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_IEEE_F64LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_VAX_F32) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_VAX_F32");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_VAX_F64) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_VAX_F64");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_FLOAT) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_FLOAT");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_DOUBLE");
+#if H5_SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE !=0
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_NATIVE_LDOUBLE");
+#endif
+        }
+        else {
+
+            /* byte order */
+            if (H5Tget_size(type) > 1) {
+                order = H5Tget_order(type);
+                if (H5T_ORDER_LE == order) {
+                    order_s = " little-endian";
+                }
+                else if (H5T_ORDER_BE == order) {
+                    order_s = " big-endian";
+                }
+                else if (H5T_ORDER_VAX == order) {
+                    order_s = " mixed-endian";
+                }
+                else {
+                    order_s = " unknown-byte-order";
+                }
+            }
+            else {
+                order_s = "";
+            }
+
+            /* print size and byte order */
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%lu-bit%s floating-point",
+                                (unsigned long) (8 * H5Tget_size(type)), order_s);
+
+        }
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_TIME:
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_TIME: not yet implemented");
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_STRING:
+        /* Make a copy of type in memory in case when TYPE is on disk, the size
+         * will be bigger than in memory.  This makes it easier to compare
+         * types in memory. */
+        tmp_type = H5Tcopy(type);
+        size = H5Tget_size(tmp_type);
+        str_pad = H5Tget_strpad(tmp_type);
+        cset = H5Tget_cset(tmp_type);
+        is_vlstr = H5Tis_variable_str(tmp_type);
+
+        curr_pos = ctx->cur_column;
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STRING %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->strblockbegin);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+        if (is_vlstr)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s H5T_VARIABLE;", STRSIZE);
+        else
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %d;", STRSIZE, (int) size);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", STRPAD);
+        if (str_pad == H5T_STR_NULLTERM)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STR_NULLTERM;");
+        else if (str_pad == H5T_STR_NULLPAD)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STR_NULLPAD;");
+        else if (str_pad == H5T_STR_SPACEPAD)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STR_SPACEPAD;");
+        else
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STR_ERROR;");
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", CSET);
+
+        if (cset == H5T_CSET_ASCII)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_CSET_ASCII;");
+        else
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "unknown_cset;");
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+
+        str_type = H5Tcopy(H5T_C_S1);
+        if (is_vlstr)
+            H5Tset_size(str_type, H5T_VARIABLE);
+        else
+            H5Tset_size(str_type, size);
+        H5Tset_cset(str_type, cset);
+        H5Tset_strpad(str_type, str_pad);
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s ", CTYPE);
+
+        /* Check C variable-length string first. Are the two types equal? */
+        if (H5Tequal(tmp_type, str_type)) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_C_S1;");
+            goto done;
+        }
+
+        /* Change the endianness and see if they're equal. */
+        order = H5Tget_order(tmp_type);
+        if (order == H5T_ORDER_LE)
+            H5Tset_order(str_type, H5T_ORDER_LE);
+        else if (order == H5T_ORDER_BE)
+            H5Tset_order(str_type, H5T_ORDER_BE);
+
+        if (H5Tequal(tmp_type, str_type)) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_C_S1;");
+            goto done;
+        }
+
+        /* If not equal to C variable-length string, check Fortran type. */
+        if(H5Tclose(str_type) < 0)
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+        str_type = H5Tcopy(H5T_FORTRAN_S1);
+
+        H5Tset_cset(str_type, cset);
+        H5Tset_size(str_type, size);
+        H5Tset_strpad(str_type, str_pad);
+
+        /* Are the two types equal? */
+        if (H5Tequal(tmp_type, str_type)) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_FORTRAN_S1;");
+            goto done;
+        }
+
+        /* Change the endianness and see if they're equal. */
+        order = H5Tget_order(tmp_type);
+        if (order == H5T_ORDER_LE)
+            H5Tset_order(str_type, H5T_ORDER_LE);
+        else if (order == H5T_ORDER_BE)
+            H5Tset_order(str_type, H5T_ORDER_BE);
+
+        if (H5Tequal(tmp_type, str_type)) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_FORTRAN_S1;");
+            goto done;
+        }
+
+        /* Type doesn't match any of above. */
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "unknown_one_character_type;");
+
+  done:
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+        if(H5Tclose(str_type) < 0)
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+        if(H5Tclose(tmp_type) < 0)
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->strblockend);
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_BITFIELD:
+        if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B8BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B8BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B8LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B8LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B16BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B16BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B16LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B16LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B32BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B32BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B32LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B32LE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B64BE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B64BE");
+        }
+        else if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_B64LE) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_STD_B64LE");
+        }
+        else {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "undefined bitfield");
+        }
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_OPAQUE:
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_OPAQUE %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->structblockbegin);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+        {
+           char *ttag = H5Tget_tag(type);
+
+           ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+           h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+           h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+           h5tools_str_append(buffer, "OPAQUE_TAG \"%s\";", ttag);
+           h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+           
+           if (ttag)
+              HDfree(ttag);
+        } 
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->structblockend);
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_COMPOUND:
+        if((snmembers = H5Tget_nmembers(type)) < 0)
+            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_nmembers failed");
+        nmembers = (unsigned)snmembers;
+        
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_COMPOUND %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->structblockbegin);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+        for (i = 0; i < nmembers; i++) {
+            mname = H5Tget_member_name(type, i);
+            if((mtype = H5Tget_member_type(type, i))>=0) {
+                ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+                h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+                h5tools_print_datatype(stream, buffer, info, ctx, mtype, TRUE);
+
+                h5tools_str_append(buffer, " \"%s\";", mname);
+                h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                if(H5Tclose(mtype) < 0)
+                    HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+            }
+            else
+                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_member_type failed");
+            free(mname);
+        }
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->structblockend);
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_REFERENCE:
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_REFERENCE");
+        if (H5Tequal(type, H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG) == TRUE) {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " { H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG }");
+        }
+        else {
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, " { H5T_STD_REF_OBJECT }");
+        }
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_ENUM:
+        if((super = H5Tget_super(type)) < 0)
+            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_nmembers failed");
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_ENUM %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->enumblockbegin);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+        h5tools_print_datatype(stream, buffer, info, ctx, super, TRUE);
+        
+        if(H5Tclose(super) < 0)
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, ";");
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_print_enum(stream, buffer, info, ctx, type);
+
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->enumblockend);
+
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_VLEN:
+        if((super = H5Tget_super(type)) < 0)
+            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_nmembers failed");
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_VLEN %s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->vlenblockbegin);
+
+        h5tools_print_datatype(stream, buffer, info, ctx, super, TRUE);
+
+        if(H5Tclose(super) < 0)
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->vlenblockend);
+
+        break;
+
+    case H5T_ARRAY:
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "H5T_ARRAY { ");
+
+        /* Get array information */
+        if((sndims = H5Tget_array_ndims(type)) >= 0) {
+            unsigned     ndims = (unsigned)sndims;
+
+            if(H5Tget_array_dims2(type, dims) >= 0) {
+                /* Print array dimensions */
+                for (i = 0; i < ndims; i++)
+                    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "[%d]", (int) dims[i]);
+
+                h5tools_str_append(buffer, " ");
+            }
+            else
+                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_array_dims2 failed");
+        }
+        else
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_array_ndims failed");
+
+        /* Get array base type */
+        if((super = H5Tget_super(type)) >= 0) {
+            /* Print base type */
+            h5tools_print_datatype(stream, buffer, info, ctx, super, TRUE);
+            /* Close array base type */
+            if(H5Tclose(super) < 0)
+                HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tclose failed");
+       }
+        else
+            HERROR(H5E_tools_g, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_super failed");
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, " }");
+
+        break;
+
+    default:
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "unknown datatype");
+        break;
+    }
+
+CATCH
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    print_dataspace
+ *
+ * Purpose:     print the dataspace.
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * In/Out:      h5tools_str_t *buffer
+ *              h5tools_context_t *ctx
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+int
+h5tools_print_dataspace(FILE *stream, h5tools_str_t *buffer, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t space)
+{
+    HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
+    hsize_t     size[H5TOOLS_DUMP_MAX_RANK];
+    hsize_t     maxsize[H5TOOLS_DUMP_MAX_RANK];
+    int         ndims = -1;
+    H5S_class_t space_type = -1;
+    int         i;
+
+    if((ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(space, size, maxsize)) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_dims failed");
+
+    if((space_type = H5Sget_simple_extent_type(space)) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Sget_simple_extent_type failed");
+
+    switch(space_type) {
+    case H5S_SCALAR:
+        /* scalar dataspace */
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedescriptionbegin, S_SCALAR);
+        break;
+
+    case H5S_SIMPLE:
+        /* simple dataspace */
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s { %s %" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u",
+                            h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedescriptionbegin, S_SIMPLE,
+                            h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimbegin, size[0]);
+
+        for(i = 1; i < ndims; i++)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, ", %" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u", size[i]);
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, " %s / ", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimend);
+
+        if(maxsize[0] == H5S_UNLIMITED)
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s",
+                                h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimbegin, "H5S_UNLIMITED");
+        else
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u",
+                                h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimbegin, maxsize[0]);
+
+        for(i = 1; i < ndims; i++)
+            if(maxsize[i] == H5S_UNLIMITED)
+                h5tools_str_append(buffer, ", %s", "H5S_UNLIMITED");
+            else
+                h5tools_str_append(buffer, ", %" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u", maxsize[i]);
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, " %s }", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimend);
+        break;
+
+    case H5S_NULL:
+        /* null dataspace */
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedescriptionbegin, S_NULL);
+        break;
+
+    case H5S_NO_CLASS:
+    default:
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s unknown dataspace %s\n", BEGIN, END);
+        break;
+    } /* end switch */
+
+CATCH
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    print_enum
+ *
+ * Purpose:     prints the enum data
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * In/Out:      h5tools_str_t *buffer
+ *              h5tools_context_t *ctx
+ *
+ *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+int
+h5tools_print_enum(FILE *stream, h5tools_str_t *buffer, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t type)
+{
+    HERR_INIT(int, SUCCEED)
+    char         **name = NULL;  /*member names                   */
+    unsigned char *value = NULL; /*value array                    */
+    unsigned char *copy = NULL;  /*a pointer to value array       */
+    unsigned       i;
+    unsigned       nmembs = 0;   /*number of members              */
+    int            snmembs;
+    int            nchars;       /*number of output characters    */
+    hid_t          super = -1;   /*enum base integer type         */
+    hid_t          native = -1;  /*native integer datatype        */
+    H5T_sign_t     sign_type;    /*sign of value type             */
+    size_t         type_size;    /*value type size                */
+    size_t         dst_size;     /*destination value type size    */
+    size_t         ncols = 80; /*available output width */
+    hsize_t        curr_pos = 0;        /* total data element position   */
+
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+    
+    if((snmembs = H5Tget_nmembers(type)) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_nmembers failed");
+    nmembs = (unsigned)snmembs;
+    assert(nmembs > 0);
+
+    if((super = H5Tget_super(type)) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_super failed");
+
+    if((type_size = H5Tget_size(type)) <= 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_size(type) failed");
+
+    /*
+     * Determine what datatype to use for the native values.  To simplify
+     * things we entertain three possibilities:
+     *  1. long long -- the largest native signed integer
+     *  2. unsigned long long -- the largest native unsigned integer
+     *  3. raw format
+     */
+    if(type_size <= sizeof(long long)) {
+        dst_size = sizeof(long long);
+
+        if((sign_type = H5Tget_sign(type))<0)
+            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_sign failed");
+        if(H5T_SGN_NONE == sign_type)
+            native = H5T_NATIVE_ULLONG;
+        else
+            native = H5T_NATIVE_LLONG;
+    } /* end if */
+    else
+        dst_size = type_size;
+
+    /* Get the names and raw values of all members */
+    if(NULL == (name = (char **)HDcalloc(nmembs, sizeof(char *))))
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for member name");
+    if(NULL == (value = (unsigned char *)HDcalloc(nmembs, MAX(type_size, dst_size))))
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate buffer for member value");
+
+    for (i = 0; i < nmembs; i++) {
+        name[i] = H5Tget_member_name(type, i);
+        if(H5Tget_member_value(type, i, value + i * type_size) < 0)
+            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tget_member_value failed");
+    }
+
+    /* Convert values to native datatype */
+    if (native > 0)
+        if(H5Tconvert(super, native, nmembs, value, NULL, H5P_DEFAULT) < 0)
+            H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "H5Tconvert failed");
+
+    /*
+     * Sort members by increasing value
+     *    ***not implemented yet***
+     */
+
+    /* Print members */
+    for (i = 0; i < nmembs; i++) {
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+        h5tools_str_reset(buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "\"%s\"", name[i]);
+        nchars = strlen(name[i]);
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%*s ", MAX(0, 16 - nchars), "");
+
+        if (native < 0) {
+            size_t j;
+
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "0x");
+
+            for (j = 0; j < dst_size; j++)
+                h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%02x", value[i * dst_size + j]);
+        }
+        else if (H5T_SGN_NONE == H5Tget_sign(native)) {
+            /*On SGI Altix(cobalt), wrong values were printed out with "value+i*dst_size"
+             *strangely, unless use another pointer "copy".*/
+            copy = value + i * dst_size;
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "u", *((unsigned long long *) ((void *) copy)));
+        }
+        else {
+            /*On SGI Altix(cobalt), wrong values were printed out with "value+i*dst_size"
+             *strangely, unless use another pointer "copy".*/
+            copy = value + i * dst_size;
+            h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%" H5_PRINTF_LL_WIDTH "d", *((long long *) ((void *) copy)));
+        }
+
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, ";");
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    }
+
+CATCH
+    if(name) {
+        /* Release resources */
+        for(i = 0; i < nmembs; i++)
+            if(name[i])
+                free(name[i]);
+        free(name);
+    } /* end if */
+
+    if(value)
+        free(value);
+
+    if(super >= 0 && H5Tclose(super) < 0)
+        H5E_THROW(FAIL, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not close datatype's super class");
+
+    if(0 == nmembs)
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, "\n<empty>");
+
+    return ret_value;
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_datatype
+ *
+ * Purpose:     Dump the datatype. Datatype can be HDF5 predefined
+ *              atomic datatype or committed/transient datatype.
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * In/Out:      h5tools_context_t *ctx
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_dump_datatype(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t type)
+{
+    h5tools_str_t buffer;          /* string into which to render   */
+    size_t        ncols = 80;      /* available output width        */
+    hsize_t       curr_pos = ctx->sm_pos;   /* total data element position   */
+                                            /* pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
+                                             * instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
+                                             * to print the array indices
+                                             */
+
+    /* setup */
+    HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
+
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s ",
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypebegin,
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockbegin);
+    h5tools_print_datatype(stream, &buffer, info, ctx, type, TRUE);
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend)) {
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeblockend);
+        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, " ");
+    }
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend))
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datatypeend);
+
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_dataspace
+ *
+ * Purpose:     Dump the dataspace. 
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * In/Out:      h5tools_context_t *ctx
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_dump_dataspace(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t type)
+{
+    h5tools_str_t buffer;          /* string into which to render   */
+    size_t        ncols = 80;      /* available output width        */
+    hsize_t       curr_pos = ctx->sm_pos;   /* total data element position   */
+                                            /* pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
+                                             * instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
+                                             * to print the array indices
+                                             */
+
+    /* setup */
+    HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
+
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s ",
+                        h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacebegin);
+
+    h5tools_print_dataspace(stream, &buffer, info, ctx, type);
+
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend)) {
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceblockend);
+        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, " ");
+    }
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend))
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspaceend);
+
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_oid
+ *
+ * Purpose:     Dump the oid.
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * In/Out:      h5tools_context_t *ctx
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_dump_oid(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t oid)
+{
+    h5tools_str_t buffer;          /* string into which to render   */
+    size_t        ncols = 80;      /* available output width        */
+    hsize_t       curr_pos = ctx->sm_pos;   /* total data element position   */
+                                            /* pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
+                                             * instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
+                                             * to print the array indices
+                                             */
+
+    /* setup */
+    HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
+
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s %d %s", OBJID, BEGIN, oid, END);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
+}
+
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_fill_value
+ *
+ * Purpose:     prints the fill value
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * Programmer:  pvn
+ *
+ * Modifications:
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_print_fill_value(h5tools_str_t *buffer/*in,out*/, const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t dcpl, hid_t type_id, hid_t obj_id)
+{
+    size_t            size;
+    hid_t             n_type;
+    hsize_t           nelmts = 1;
+    void             *buf = NULL;
+
+    n_type = h5tools_get_native_type(type_id);
+
+    size = H5Tget_size(n_type);
+    buf = malloc(size);
+
+    H5Pget_fill_value(dcpl, n_type, buf);
+
+    h5tools_str_sprint(buffer, info, obj_id, n_type, buf, ctx);
+
+    H5Tclose(n_type);
+
+    if (buf)
+        free (buf);
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_dcpl
+ *
+ * Purpose:     prints several dataset create property list properties
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * Modifications: pvn, March 28, 2008
+ *   Add a COMPRESSION ratio information for cases when filters are present
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_dump_dcpl(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t dcpl_id,hid_t type_id, hid_t obj_id)
+{
+    int              nfilters;       /* number of filters */
+    int              rank;           /* rank */
+    int              i;
+    unsigned         j;
+    unsigned         filt_flags;     /* filter flags */
+    unsigned         cd_values[20];  /* filter client data values */
+    unsigned         szip_options_mask;
+    unsigned         szip_pixels_per_block;
+    H5Z_filter_t     filtn;          /* filter identification number */
+    H5D_fill_value_t fvstatus;
+    H5D_alloc_time_t at;
+    H5D_fill_time_t  ft;
+    size_t        ncols = 80;      /* available output width        */
+    size_t           cd_nelmts;      /* filter client number of values */
+    off_t            offset;         /* offset of external file     */
+    char             f_name[256];    /* filter name */
+    char             name[256];      /* external file name       */
+    hsize_t          chsize[64];     /* chunk size in elements */
+    hsize_t          size;           /* size of external file   */
+    hsize_t          storage_size;
+    hsize_t       curr_pos = 0;        /* total data element position   */
+    hsize_t       elmt_counter = 0;/* counts the # elements printed.*/
+    haddr_t          ioffset;
+    h5tools_str_t buffer;          /* string into which to render   */
+
+    /* setup */
+    HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+
+    storage_size = H5Dget_storage_size(obj_id);
+    nfilters = H5Pget_nfilters(dcpl_id);
+    ioffset = H5Dget_offset(obj_id);
+    HDstrcpy(f_name,"\0");
+
+    /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    * STORAGE_LAYOUT
+    *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    */
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", STORAGE_LAYOUT, BEGIN);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    if(H5D_CHUNKED == H5Pget_layout(dcpl_id)) {
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+        
+        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s ", CHUNKED);
+
+        rank = H5Pget_chunk(dcpl_id,NELMTS(chsize),chsize);
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %u", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimbegin, chsize[0]);
+        for(i = 1; i < rank; i++)
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, ", %u", chsize[i]);
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, " %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataspacedimend);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+        
+        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+
+       /* if there are filters, print a compression ratio */
+        if(nfilters) {
+            hsize_t     dims[H5S_MAX_RANK];
+            hsize_t     nelmts = 1;
+            double      ratio = 0;
+            int         ok = 0;
+            
+            hid_t       tid = H5Dget_type(obj_id);
+            hid_t       sid = H5Dget_space(obj_id);
+            size_t      datum_size = H5Tget_size(tid);
+            int         ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(sid, dims, NULL);
+
+            /* only print the compression ratio for these filters */
+            for(i = 0; i < nfilters; i++) {
+                cd_nelmts = NELMTS(cd_values);
+                filtn = H5Pget_filter2(dcpl_id, (unsigned)i, &filt_flags, &cd_nelmts,
+                                       cd_values, sizeof(f_name), f_name, NULL);
+
+                switch(filtn) {
+                case H5Z_FILTER_DEFLATE:
+                case H5Z_FILTER_SZIP:
+                case H5Z_FILTER_NBIT:
+                case H5Z_FILTER_SCALEOFFSET:
+                    ok = 1;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+
+            if(ndims && ok) {
+                hsize_t uncomp_size;
+
+                for(i = 0; i < ndims; i++) {
+                    nelmts *= dims[i];
+                }
+                uncomp_size = nelmts * datum_size;
+
+                /* compression ratio = uncompressed size /  compressed size */
+
+                if(storage_size != 0)
+                    ratio = (double) uncomp_size / (double) storage_size;
+
+                h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "SIZE %u (%.3f:1 COMPRESSION)", storage_size, ratio);
+
+            }
+            else
+                h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "SIZE %u", storage_size);
+
+            H5Sclose(sid);
+            H5Tclose(tid);
+
+        }
+        else {
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "SIZE %u", storage_size);
+        }
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+        
+        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s",END);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    }
+    else if(H5D_COMPACT == H5Pget_layout(dcpl_id)) {
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+        
+        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", COMPACT);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+        
+        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "SIZE %u", storage_size);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+        
+        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s",END);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    }
+    else if(H5D_CONTIGUOUS == H5Pget_layout(dcpl_id)) {
+        int              next;
+
+        next = H5Pget_external_count(dcpl_id);
+
+        /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+        * EXTERNAL_FILE
+        *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+        */
+        if(next) {
+            ctx->indent_level++;
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+            
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", CONTIGUOUS);
+            h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+            
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", EXTERNAL, BEGIN);
+            h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+            ctx->indent_level++;
+            for(j = 0; j < (unsigned)next; j++) {
+                H5Pget_external(dcpl_id, j, sizeof(name), name, &offset, &size);
+
+                ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                
+                h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "FILENAME %s SIZE %u OFFSET %ld", name, size, offset);
+                h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+            }
+            ctx->indent_level--;
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+            
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s",END);
+            h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+            ctx->indent_level--;
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+            
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s",END);
+            h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+        }
+        else {
+            ctx->indent_level++;
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+            
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", CONTIGUOUS);
+            h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+            
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer,"SIZE %u", storage_size);
+            h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+            
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer,"OFFSET %u", ioffset);
+            h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+            ctx->indent_level--;
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+            
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s",END);
+            h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+        }
+    }
+   /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    * FILTERS
+    *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    */
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", FILTERS, BEGIN);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    ctx->indent_level++;
+
+    if(nfilters) {
+        for(i = 0; i < nfilters; i++) {
+            cd_nelmts = NELMTS(cd_values);
+            filtn = H5Pget_filter2(dcpl_id, (unsigned)i, &filt_flags, &cd_nelmts,
+                cd_values, sizeof(f_name), f_name, NULL);
+
+            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+            
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            switch(filtn) {
+                case H5Z_FILTER_DEFLATE:
+                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s %s %d %s", DEFLATE, BEGIN, DEFLATE_LEVEL, cd_values[0], END);
+                    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    break;
+                case H5Z_FILTER_SHUFFLE:
+                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", SHUFFLE);
+                    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    break;
+                case H5Z_FILTER_FLETCHER32:
+                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", FLETCHER32);
+                    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    break;
+                case H5Z_FILTER_SZIP:
+                    {
+                        szip_options_mask = cd_values[0];;
+                        szip_pixels_per_block = cd_values[1];
+
+                        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s",SZIP, BEGIN);
+                        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+                        ctx->indent_level++;
+
+                        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                        
+                        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "PIXELS_PER_BLOCK %d", szip_pixels_per_block);
+                        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+                        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                        
+                        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                        if(szip_options_mask & H5_SZIP_CHIP_OPTION_MASK)
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "MODE %s", "HARDWARE");
+                        else if(szip_options_mask & H5_SZIP_ALLOW_K13_OPTION_MASK)
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "MODE %s", "K13");
+                        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+                        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                        
+                        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                        if(szip_options_mask & H5_SZIP_EC_OPTION_MASK)
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "CODING %s", "ENTROPY");
+                        else if(szip_options_mask & H5_SZIP_NN_OPTION_MASK)
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "CODING %s", "NEAREST NEIGHBOUR");
+                        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+                        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                        
+                        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                        if(szip_options_mask & H5_SZIP_LSB_OPTION_MASK)
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "BYTE_ORDER %s", "LSB");
+                        else if(szip_options_mask & H5_SZIP_MSB_OPTION_MASK)
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "BYTE_ORDER %s", "MSB");
+                        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+                        if(szip_options_mask & H5_SZIP_RAW_OPTION_MASK) {
+                            ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                            
+                            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "HEADER %s", "RAW");
+                            h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                        }
+
+                        ctx->indent_level--;
+
+                        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                        
+                        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s",END);
+                        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    }
+                    break;
+                case H5Z_FILTER_NBIT:
+                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", NBIT);
+                    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    break;
+                case H5Z_FILTER_SCALEOFFSET:
+                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s %s %d %s", SCALEOFFSET, BEGIN, SCALEOFFSET_MINBIT, cd_values[0], END);
+                    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    break;
+                default:
+                    if(H5Zfilter_avail(filtn))
+                        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", "USER_REGISTERED_FILTER", BEGIN);
+                    else
+                        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", "UNKNOWN_FILTER", BEGIN);
+                    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+                    ctx->indent_level++;
+
+                    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                    
+                    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "FILTER_ID %d", filtn);
+                    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    
+                    if(f_name[0] != '\0') {
+                        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                        
+                        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "COMMENT %s", f_name);
+                        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    }
+                    if (cd_nelmts) {
+                        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                        
+                        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s ","PARAMS", BEGIN);
+                        for (j=0; j<cd_nelmts; j++)
+                            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%d ", cd_values[j]);
+                        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", END);
+                        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    }
+                    ctx->indent_level--;
+
+                    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+                    
+                    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s",END);
+                    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                    break;
+            }/*switch*/
+        } /*i*/
+    }/*nfilters*/
+    else {
+
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+        
+        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "NONE");
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    }
+    ctx->indent_level--;
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s",END);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    * FILLVALUE
+    *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    */
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", FILLVALUE, BEGIN);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    ctx->indent_level++;
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "FILL_TIME ");
+    
+    H5Pget_fill_time(dcpl_id, &ft);
+    switch(ft) {
+        case H5D_FILL_TIME_ALLOC:
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", "H5D_FILL_TIME_ALLOC");
+            break;
+        case H5D_FILL_TIME_NEVER:
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", "H5D_FILL_TIME_NEVER");
+            break;
+        case H5D_FILL_TIME_IFSET:
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", "H5D_FILL_TIME_IFSET");
+            break;
+        default:
+            assert(0);
+            break;
+    }
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s ", "VALUE ");
+    H5Pfill_value_defined(dcpl_id, &fvstatus);
+    if(fvstatus == H5D_FILL_VALUE_UNDEFINED)
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", "H5D_FILL_VALUE_UNDEFINED");
+    else {
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+        h5tools_print_fill_value(&buffer, info, ctx, dcpl_id, type_id, obj_id);
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+    }
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    ctx->indent_level--;
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+        
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", END);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    * ALLOCATION_TIME
+    *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    */
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "ALLOCATION_TIME %s", BEGIN);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    ctx->indent_level++;
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    H5Pget_alloc_time(dcpl_id, &at);
+    switch(at) {
+        case H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY:
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", "H5D_ALLOC_TIME_EARLY");
+            break;
+        case H5D_ALLOC_TIME_INCR:
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", "H5D_ALLOC_TIME_INCR");
+            break;
+        case H5D_ALLOC_TIME_LATE:
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", "H5D_ALLOC_TIME_LATE");
+            break;
+        default:
+            assert(0);
+            break;
+    }
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    ctx->indent_level--;
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", END);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_comment
+ *
+ * Purpose:     prints the comment for the the object name
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_dump_comment(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t obj_id)
+{
+    char         *comment = NULL;
+    ssize_t       cmt_bufsize = -1;
+    size_t        buf_size = 0;
+    size_t        ncols = 80;      /* available output width        */
+    h5tools_str_t buffer;          /* string into which to render   */
+    hsize_t       elmt_counter = 0;/* counts the # elements printed.*/
+    hsize_t       curr_pos = ctx->sm_pos;   /* total data element position   */
+                                            /* pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
+                                             * instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
+                                             * to print the array indices
+                                             */
+
+    /* setup */
+    HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
+
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+
+    cmt_bufsize = H5Oget_comment(obj_id, comment, buf_size);
+
+    /* call H5Oget_comment again with the correct value.
+     * If the call to H5Oget_comment returned an error, skip this block */
+    if (cmt_bufsize > 0) {
+        comment = (char *)HDmalloc((size_t)(cmt_bufsize+1)); /* new_size including null terminator */
+        if(comment) {
+            cmt_bufsize = H5Oget_comment(obj_id, comment, cmt_bufsize);
+            if(cmt_bufsize > 0) {
+                comment[cmt_bufsize] = '\0'; /* necessary because null char is not returned */
+
+                ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+                
+                h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "COMMENT \"%s\"", comment);
+                h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+                h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
+            } /* end if */
+            HDfree(comment);
+        }
+    }
+} /* end dump_comment() */
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_attribute
+ *
+ * Purpose:     Dump the attribute. 
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * In/Out:      h5tools_context_t *ctx
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_dump_attribute(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t oid, const char *attr_name, hid_t attr_id, 
+        int display_index, int display_char)
+{
+    h5tools_str_t buffer;          /* string into which to render   */
+    size_t        ncols = 80;      /* available output width        */
+    hsize_t       elmt_counter = 0;/* counts the # elements printed.*/
+    hsize_t       curr_pos = ctx->sm_pos;   /* total data element position   */
+                                            /* pass to the prefix in h5tools_simple_prefix the total position
+                                             * instead of the current stripmine position i; this is necessary
+                                             * to print the array indices
+                                             */
+
+    /* setup */
+    HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
+
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, curr_pos, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s \"%s\" %s",
+            h5tools_dump_header_format->attributebegin, attr_name,
+            h5tools_dump_header_format->attributeblockbegin);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    if(attr_id < 0) {
+        error_msg("unable to open attribute \"%s\"\n", attr_name);
+    } 
+    else {
+        hid_t type, space;
+
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+
+        type = H5Aget_type(attr_id);
+        h5tools_dump_datatype(stream, info, ctx, type);
+
+        space = H5Aget_space(attr_id);
+        h5tools_dump_dataspace(stream, info, ctx, space);
+
+        if(oid_output)
+            h5tools_dump_oid(stream, info, ctx, attr_id);
+
+        if(data_output || attr_data_output)
+            h5tools_dump_data(stream, info, ctx, attr_id, FALSE, NULL, display_index, display_char);
+
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+
+        H5Tclose(type);
+        H5Sclose(space);
+        H5Aclose(attr_id);
+    }
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->attributeblockend)) {
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->attributeblockend);
+        if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->attributeend))
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, " ");
+    }
+    if (HDstrlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->attributeend))
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->attributeend);
+
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_dims
+ *
+ * Purpose:     Dump the dimensions handed to it in a comma separated list
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * Programmer:  Bill Wendling
+ *              Tuesday, 27. February 2001
+ *
+ * Modifications:
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_print_dims(h5tools_str_t *buffer, hsize_t *s, int dims)
+{
+    int i;
+
+    for (i = 0; i < dims; i++) {
+        h5tools_str_append(buffer, HSIZE_T_FORMAT, s[i]);
+
+        if (i + 1 != dims) h5tools_str_append(buffer, ", ");
+    }
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    print_packed_bits
+ *
+ * Purpose:     Prints the packed bits offset and length
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_print_packed_bits(h5tools_str_t *buffer, hid_t type)
+{
+    int     packed_bits_size = 0;
+    
+    hid_t n_type = h5tools_get_native_type(type);
+    if(H5Tget_class(n_type)==H5T_INTEGER) {
+        if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_SCHAR) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(char);
+        } 
+        else if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_UCHAR) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(unsigned char);
+        } 
+        else if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_SHORT) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(short);
+        } 
+        else if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_USHORT) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(unsigned short);
+        } 
+        else if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_INT) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(int);
+        } 
+        else if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_UINT) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(unsigned int);
+        } 
+        else if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_LONG) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(long);
+        } 
+        else if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_ULONG) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(unsigned long);
+        } 
+        else if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_LLONG) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(long long);
+        } 
+        else if(H5Tequal(n_type, H5T_NATIVE_ULLONG) == TRUE) {
+            packed_bits_size = 8 * sizeof(unsigned long long);
+        }
+        else
+            error_msg("Packed Bit not valid for this datatype");
+    }
+
+    if ((packed_bits_size>0) && (packed_data_offset + packed_data_length) > packed_bits_size) {
+        error_msg("Packed Bit offset+length value(%d) too large. Max is %d\n", packed_data_offset+packed_data_length, packed_bits_size);
+        packed_data_mask = 0;
+    };
+    h5tools_str_append(buffer, "%s %s=%d %s=%d", PACKED_BITS, PACKED_OFFSET, packed_data_offset, PACKED_LENGTH, packed_data_length);
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_subsetting_header
+ *
+ * Purpose:     Dump the subsetting header like specified in the DDL.
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ * Programmer:  Bill Wendling
+ *              Tuesday, 27. February 2001
+ *
+ * Modifications:
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_dump_subsetting_header(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, struct subset_t *sset, int dims)
+{
+    h5tools_str_t buffer;          /* string into which to render   */
+    hsize_t       curr_pos = 0;        /* total data element position   */
+    size_t        ncols = 80;      /* available output width        */
+
+    /* setup */
+    HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+   
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->subsettingbegin, h5tools_dump_header_format->subsettingblockbegin);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    ctx->indent_level++;
+    
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+    
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->startbegin, h5tools_dump_header_format->startblockbegin);
+    h5tools_print_dims(&buffer, sset->start.data, dims);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->startend, h5tools_dump_header_format->startblockend);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->stridebegin, h5tools_dump_header_format->strideblockbegin);
+    h5tools_print_dims(&buffer, sset->stride.data, dims);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->strideend, h5tools_dump_header_format->strideblockend);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->countbegin, h5tools_dump_header_format->countblockbegin);
+
+    if(sset->count.data)
+        h5tools_print_dims(&buffer, sset->count.data, dims);
+    else
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "DEFAULT");
+
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->countend, h5tools_dump_header_format->countblockend);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s ", h5tools_dump_header_format->blockbegin, h5tools_dump_header_format->blockblockbegin);
+
+    if(sset->block.data)
+        h5tools_print_dims(&buffer, sset->block.data, dims);
+    else
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "DEFAULT");
+
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->blockend, h5tools_dump_header_format->blockblockend);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, info, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    
+    ctx->indent_level--;
+
+    h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
+}
+
+/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Function:    dump_data
+ *
+ * Purpose:     Dump attribute or dataset data
+ *
+ * Return:      void
+ *
+ *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ */
+void
+h5tools_dump_data(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+        h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t obj_id, int obj_data, struct subset_t *sset, 
+        int display_index, int display_char)
+{
+    H5S_class_t space_type;
+    int         ndims;
+    int         i;
+    hid_t       space;
+    hid_t       type;
+    hid_t       p_type;
+    hsize_t     size[64];
+    hsize_t     alloc_size;
+    hsize_t     nelmts = 1;
+    int         status = -1;
+    void       *buf = NULL;
+    h5tools_str_t buffer;          /* string into which to render   */
+    hsize_t       curr_pos = 0;        /* total data element position   */
+    size_t        ncols = 80;      /* available output width        */
+    h5tool_format_t     string_dataformat;
+    h5tool_format_t     outputformat;
+
+    /* setup */
+    HDmemset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(h5tools_str_t));
+    if (info->line_ncols > 0)
+        ncols = info->line_ncols;
+
+    outputformat = *info;
+    string_dataformat = *info;
+    /* print the matrix indices */
+    string_dataformat.pindex = display_index;
+
+    /* do not print indices for regions */
+    if(obj_data) {
+        hid_t f_type = H5Dget_type(obj_id);
+
+        if (H5Tequal(f_type, H5T_STD_REF_DSETREG)) {
+            /* For the region option, correct the display of indices */
+            if (region_output) {
+                if (!string_dataformat.pindex) {
+                    string_dataformat.idx_fmt   = "";
+                    string_dataformat.idx_n_fmt = "";
+                    string_dataformat.idx_sep   = "";
+                    string_dataformat.line_pre  = "";
+                }
+            }
+            else
+                string_dataformat.pindex = 0;
+        }
+        H5Tclose(f_type);
+    }
+
+    if (string_dataformat.pindex) {
+        string_dataformat.idx_fmt   = "(%s): ";
+        string_dataformat.idx_n_fmt = HSIZE_T_FORMAT;
+        string_dataformat.idx_sep   = ",";
+        string_dataformat.line_pre  = "%s";
+    }
+    info = &string_dataformat;
+
+    if (sset && obj_data) {
+        hid_t f_space = H5Dget_space(obj_id);
+
+        h5tools_dump_subsetting_header(stream, &outputformat, ctx, sset, H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims(f_space));
+        H5Sclose(f_space);
+        
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+    }
+    
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s %s", h5tools_dump_header_format->databegin, h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockbegin);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, &outputformat, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    /* Print all the values. */
+    if(obj_data) {
+        h5tools_context_t datactx = *ctx;            /* print context  */
+        hid_t               f_type = H5Dget_type(obj_id);
+
+        if((display_char && H5Tget_size(f_type) == 1) && (H5Tget_class(f_type) == H5T_INTEGER)) {
+            /*
+             * Print 1-byte integer data as an ASCII character string
+             * instead of integers if the `-r' or `--string' command-line
+             * option was given.
+             *
+             * We don't want to modify the global dataformat, so make a
+             * copy of it instead.
+             */
+            string_dataformat = *info;
+            string_dataformat.idx_fmt = "\"";
+            info = &string_dataformat;
+            datactx.indent_level++;
+            datactx.need_prefix = TRUE;
+            h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, &datactx, 0, 0);
+            
+            string_dataformat = *info;
+            string_dataformat.idx_fmt = "\"";
+            string_dataformat.line_multi_new = 1;
+            string_dataformat.str_repeat = 8;
+            string_dataformat.ascii = TRUE;
+            string_dataformat.elmt_suf1 = "";
+            string_dataformat.elmt_suf2 = "";
+            string_dataformat.line_suf = "\"";
+            info = &string_dataformat;
+        }
+        else
+            datactx.need_prefix = TRUE;
+        status = h5tools_dump_dset(stream, info, &datactx, obj_id, -1, sset);
+        if((display_char && H5Tget_size(f_type) == 1) && (H5Tget_class(f_type) == H5T_INTEGER)) {
+            h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "\"");
+            h5tools_render_element(stream, &outputformat, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+        }
+        H5Tclose(f_type);
+    }
+    else {
+        h5tools_context_t datactx = *ctx;            /* print context  */
+        /* need to call h5tools_dump_mem for the attribute data */
+        space = H5Aget_space(obj_id);
+        space_type = H5Sget_simple_extent_type(space);
+        if(space_type == H5S_NULL || space_type == H5S_NO_CLASS) {
+            status = SUCCEED;
+        }
+        else {
+            char                string_prefix[64];
+            /* VL data special information */
+            unsigned int        vl_data = 0; /* contains VL datatypes */
+
+            type = H5Aget_type(obj_id);
+            p_type = h5tools_get_native_type(type);
+
+            ndims = H5Sget_simple_extent_dims(space, size, NULL);
+
+            /* Check if we have VL data in the dataset's datatype */
+            if (h5tools_detect_vlen_str(p_type) == TRUE)
+                vl_data = TRUE;
+            if (H5Tdetect_class(p_type, H5T_VLEN) == TRUE)
+                vl_data = TRUE;
+
+            for (i = 0; i < ndims; i++)
+                nelmts *= size[i];
+
+            alloc_size = nelmts * MAX(H5Tget_size(type), H5Tget_size(p_type));
+            assert(alloc_size == (hsize_t)((size_t)alloc_size)); /*check for overflow*/
+
+            if(alloc_size) {
+                buf = malloc((size_t)alloc_size);
+                assert(buf);
+
+                if (H5Aread(obj_id, p_type, buf) >= 0)
+                    if (display_char && H5Tget_size(type) == 1 && H5Tget_class(type) == H5T_INTEGER) {
+                        /*
+                         * Print 1-byte integer data as an ASCII character string
+                         * instead of integers if the `-r' or `--string' command-line
+                         * option was given.
+                         *
+                         * We don't want to modify the global dataformat, so make a
+                         * copy of it instead.
+                         */
+                        string_dataformat = *info;
+                        string_dataformat.idx_fmt = "\"";
+                        info = &string_dataformat;
+                        datactx.indent_level++;
+                        datactx.need_prefix = TRUE;
+                        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, info, &datactx, 0, 0);
+                        
+                        string_dataformat = *info;
+                        string_dataformat.idx_fmt = "\"";
+                        string_dataformat.line_multi_new = 1;
+                        string_dataformat.str_repeat = 8;
+                        string_dataformat.ascii = TRUE;
+                        string_dataformat.elmt_suf1 = "";
+                        string_dataformat.elmt_suf2 = "";
+                        string_dataformat.line_suf = "\"";
+                        info = &string_dataformat;
+                    }
+                    else
+                        datactx.need_prefix = TRUE;
+
+                status = h5tools_dump_mem(stream, info, &datactx, obj_id, p_type, space, buf);
+                if (display_char && H5Tget_size(type) == 1 && H5Tget_class(type) == H5T_INTEGER) {
+                    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+                    h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "\"");
+                    h5tools_render_element(stream, &outputformat, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+                }
+
+                /* Reclaim any VL memory, if necessary */
+                if (vl_data)
+                    H5Dvlen_reclaim(p_type, space, H5P_DEFAULT, buf);
+
+                free(buf);
+            } 
+            else
+                status = SUCCEED;
+
+            H5Tclose(p_type);
+            H5Tclose(type);
+        }
+        H5Sclose(space);
+    }
+
+    if (status == FAIL) {
+        error_msg("unable to print data\n");
+        h5tools_setstatus(EXIT_FAILURE);
+    }
+
+    ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+    h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, &outputformat, ctx, 0, 0);
+
+    h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+    if(strlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockend)) {
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->datablockend);
+        if(strlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataend))
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, " ");
+    }
+    if(strlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->dataend))
+        h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->dataend);
+    h5tools_render_element(stream, &outputformat, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+
+    if (sset && obj_data) {
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+     
+        ctx->need_prefix = TRUE;
+        h5tools_simple_prefix(stream, &outputformat, ctx, 0, 0);
+        
+        h5tools_str_reset(&buffer);
+        if(strlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->subsettingblockend)) {
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->subsettingblockend);
+            if(strlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->subsettingend))
+                h5tools_str_append(&buffer, " ");
+        }
+        if(strlen(h5tools_dump_header_format->subsettingend))
+            h5tools_str_append(&buffer, "%s", h5tools_dump_header_format->subsettingend);
+        h5tools_render_element(stream, &outputformat, ctx, &buffer, &curr_pos, ncols, 0, 0);
+    }
+
+    h5tools_str_close(&buffer);
+}
+
diff --git a/tools/lib/h5tools_dump.h b/tools/lib/h5tools_dump.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c94d0e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/lib/h5tools_dump.h
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
+ * Copyright by The HDF Group.                                               *
+ * Copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.         *
+ * All rights reserved.                                                      *
+ *                                                                           *
+ * This file is part of HDF5.  The full HDF5 copyright notice, including     *
+ * terms governing use, modification, and redistribution, is contained in    *
+ * the files COPYING and Copyright.html.  COPYING can be found at the root   *
+ * of the source code distribution tree; Copyright.html can be found at the  *
+ * root level of an installed copy of the electronic HDF5 document set and   *
+ * is linked from the top-level documents page.  It can also be found at     *
+ * http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Copyright.html.  If you do not have          *
+ * access to either file, you may request a copy from help@hdfgroup.org.     *
+ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
+
+/*
+ * Purpose:     Support h5dump functions for the various tools.
+ */
+#ifndef H5TOOLS_DUMP_H__
+#define H5TOOLS_DUMP_H__
+
+#include "h5tools_utils.h"
+
+/* 3 private values: can't be set, but can be read.
+   Note: these are defined in H5Zprivate, they are
+   duplicated here.
+ */
+#define H5_SZIP_LSB_OPTION_MASK         8
+#define H5_SZIP_MSB_OPTION_MASK         16
+#define H5_SZIP_RAW_OPTION_MASK         128
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR table_t *h5dump_type_table;  /*type table reference for datatype dump  */
+
+/* Definitions of useful routines */
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_dump_init(void);
+
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     h5tools_dump_dset(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t dset,
+                            hid_t p_typ, struct subset_t *sset);
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     h5tools_dump_mem(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t obj_id,
+                            hid_t type, hid_t space, void *mem);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_dump_simple_data(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t container,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, unsigned flags,
+                            hsize_t nelmts, hid_t type, void *_mem);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void     h5tools_dump_datatype(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t type);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_dump_dataspace(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t space);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_dump_attribute(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t oid, const char *attr_name, 
+                            hid_t attr_id, int display_index, int display_char);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_dump_oid(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t oid);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_dump_dcpl(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t dcpl, hid_t type_id, hid_t obj_id);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_dump_comment(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, hid_t obj_id);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_dump_data(FILE *stream, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                            h5tools_context_t *ctx, hid_t obj_id,
+                            int obj_data, struct subset_t *sset, int display_index, int display_char);
+
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     h5tools_print_datatype(FILE *stream, h5tools_str_t *buffer/*in,out*/,
+                            const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
+                            hid_t type, int object_search);
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     h5tools_print_dataspace(FILE *stream, h5tools_str_t *buffer/*in,out*/,
+                            const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
+                            hid_t space);
+H5TOOLS_DLL int     h5tools_print_enum(FILE *stream, h5tools_str_t *buffer/*in,out*/,
+                            const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/,
+                            hid_t type);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_print_fill_value(h5tools_str_t *buffer/*in,out*/,
+                            const h5tool_format_t *info, h5tools_context_t *ctx/*in,out*/, 
+                            hid_t dcpl, hid_t type_id, hid_t obj_id);
+H5TOOLS_DLL void    h5tools_print_packed_bits(h5tools_str_t *buffer/*in,out*/, hid_t type);
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* H5TOOLS_DUMP_H__ */
+
diff --git a/tools/lib/h5tools_str.c b/tools/lib/h5tools_str.c
index 205dffe..299f5bf 100644
--- a/tools/lib/h5tools_str.c
+++ b/tools/lib/h5tools_str.c
@@ -610,6 +610,32 @@ h5tools_print_char(h5tools_str_t *str, const h5tool_format_t *info, char ch)
         }
     }
 }
+void
+h5tools_str_indent(h5tools_str_t *str, const h5tool_format_t *info,
+                      h5tools_context_t *ctx)
+{
+    int i, indentlevel = 0;
+
+    /* Write new prefix */
+    if (ctx->indent_level >= 0) {
+        indentlevel = ctx->indent_level;
+    }
+    else {
+        /*
+         * This is because sometimes we don't print out all the header
+         * info for the data (like the tattr-2.ddl example). If that happens
+         * the ctx->indent_level is negative so we need to skip the above and
+         * just print out the default indent levels.
+         */
+        indentlevel = ctx->default_indent_level;
+    }
+
+    for (i = 0; i < indentlevel; i++) {
+        h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->line_indent, ""));
+    }
+
+//    ctx->need_prefix = 0;
+}
 
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  * Function:    h5tools_str_sprint
@@ -951,25 +977,17 @@ h5tools_str_sprint(h5tools_str_t *str, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t contai
         nmembs = H5Tget_nmembers(type);
         h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->cmpd_pre, "{"));
 
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+
         for (j = 0; j < nmembs; j++) {
             if (j)
-                h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->cmpd_sep, ", " OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK));
-
-            /* RPM 2000-10-31
-             * If the previous character is a line-feed (which is true when
-             * h5dump is running) then insert some white space for
-             * indentation. Be warned that column number calculations will be
-             * incorrect and that object indices at the beginning of the line
-             * will be missing (h5dump doesn't display them anyway).  */
-            if (ctx->indent_level >= 0 && str->len && str->s[str->len - 1] == '\n') {
-                int x;
-
-                h5tools_str_append(str, OPT(info->line_pre, ""), "");
-
-                for (x = 0; x < ctx->indent_level + 1; x++)
-                    h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->line_indent, ""));
-            }
+                h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->cmpd_sep, ", "OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK));
+            else 
+                h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->cmpd_end, ""));
 
+            if(info->arr_linebreak)
+                h5tools_str_indent(str, info, ctx);
+            
             /* The name */
             name = H5Tget_member_name(type, j);
             h5tools_str_append(str, OPT(info->cmpd_name, ""), name);
@@ -979,31 +997,19 @@ h5tools_str_sprint(h5tools_str_t *str, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t contai
             offset = H5Tget_member_offset(type, j);
             memb = H5Tget_member_type(type, j);
 
-            ctx->indent_level++;
             h5tools_str_sprint(str, info, container, memb, cp_vp + offset, ctx);
-            ctx->indent_level--;
 
             H5Tclose(memb);
         }
+        ctx->indent_level--;
 
-        /* RPM 2000-10-31
-         * If the previous character is a line feed (which is true when
-         * h5dump is running) then insert some white space for indentation.
-         * Be warned that column number calculations will be incorrect and
-         * that object indices at the beginning of the line will be missing
-         * (h5dump doesn't display them anyway). */
-        h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->cmpd_end, ""));
-
-        if (ctx->indent_level >= 0 && str->len && str->s[str->len - 1] == '\n') {
-            int x;
-
-            h5tools_str_append(str, OPT(info->line_pre, ""), "");
 
-            for (x = 0; x < ctx->indent_level; x++)
-                h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->line_indent, ""));
+        if(info->arr_linebreak) {
+            h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->cmpd_end, ""));
+            h5tools_str_indent(str, info, ctx);
         }
-
         h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->cmpd_suf, "}"));
+
     }
     else if (H5Tget_class(type) == H5T_ENUM) {
         char enum_name[1024];
@@ -1084,7 +1090,7 @@ h5tools_str_sprint(h5tools_str_t *str, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t contai
     else if (H5Tget_class(type) == H5T_ARRAY) {
         int k, ndims;
         hsize_t i, dims[H5S_MAX_RANK], temp_nelmts;
-        static int is_next_arry_elmt=0;
+        static int is_next_arry_elmt = 0;
 
         /* Get the array's base datatype for each element */
         memb = H5Tget_super(type);
@@ -1103,6 +1109,8 @@ h5tools_str_sprint(h5tools_str_t *str, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t contai
         /* Print the opening bracket */
         h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->arr_pre, "["));
 
+        ctx->indent_level++;
+
         for (i = 0; i < nelmts; i++) {
             if (i)
                 h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->arr_sep, "," OPTIONAL_LINE_BREAK));
@@ -1111,14 +1119,8 @@ h5tools_str_sprint(h5tools_str_t *str, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t contai
                 int x;
 
                 h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", "\n");
+                h5tools_str_indent(str, info, ctx);
 
-                /* need to indent some more here*/
-                if (ctx->indent_level >= 0)
-                    if (!info->pindex)
-                        h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->line_pre, ""));
-
-                for (x = 0; x < ctx->indent_level + 1; x++)
-                    h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->line_indent, ""));
             } /* end if */
             else if (i && info->arr_sep) {
                 /* if next element begin, add next line with indent */
@@ -1127,13 +1129,8 @@ h5tools_str_sprint(h5tools_str_t *str, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t contai
                     is_next_arry_elmt = 0;
 
                     h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", "\n ");
+                    h5tools_str_indent(str, info, ctx);
 
-                    if (ctx->indent_level >= 0)
-                        if (!info->pindex)
-                            h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->line_pre, ""));
-
-                    for (x = 0; x < ctx->indent_level + 1; x++)
-                        h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->line_indent, ""));
                 }
                 /* otherwise just add space */
                 else
@@ -1141,15 +1138,13 @@ h5tools_str_sprint(h5tools_str_t *str, const h5tool_format_t *info, hid_t contai
                 
             } /* end else if */
 
-            ctx->indent_level++;
-
             /* Dump values in an array element */
             is_next_arry_elmt = 0; /* dump all values in the array element, so turn it off */
             h5tools_str_sprint(str, info, container, memb, cp_vp + i * size, ctx);
-
-            ctx->indent_level--;
         } /* end for */
 
+        ctx->indent_level--;
+
         /* Print the closing bracket */
         h5tools_str_append(str, "%s", OPT(info->arr_suf, "]"));
         is_next_arry_elmt = 1; /* set for begining of next array element */
diff --git a/tools/lib/h5tools_utils.c b/tools/lib/h5tools_utils.c
index 3f89572..4d7b88e 100644
--- a/tools/lib/h5tools_utils.c
+++ b/tools/lib/h5tools_utils.c
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@
 #include "h5trav.h"
 
 /* global variables */
-int   nCols = 80;
-
+int   h5tools_nCols = 80;
 /* ``get_option'' variables */
 int         opt_err = 1;    /*get_option prints errors if this is on */
 int         opt_ind = 1;    /*token pointer                          */
@@ -393,7 +392,7 @@ get_option(int argc, const char **argv, const char *opts, const struct long_opti
 void
 indentation(int x)
 {
-    if (x < nCols) {
+    if (x < h5tools_nCols) {
         while (x-- > 0)
             printf(" ");
     } else {
diff --git a/tools/lib/h5tools_utils.h b/tools/lib/h5tools_utils.h
index 0f3acd1..3e628e2 100644
--- a/tools/lib/h5tools_utils.h
+++ b/tools/lib/h5tools_utils.h
@@ -29,19 +29,13 @@ extern "C" {
 #endif
 
 /* ``parallel_print'' information */
-#define PRINT_DATA_MAX_SIZE 	512
-#define OUTBUFF_SIZE 		(PRINT_DATA_MAX_SIZE*4)
+#define PRINT_DATA_MAX_SIZE     512
+#define OUTBUFF_SIZE        (PRINT_DATA_MAX_SIZE*4)
 
 /* Maximum size used in a call to malloc for a dataset */
 H5TOOLS_DLLVAR hsize_t H5TOOLS_MALLOCSIZE;
 /* size of hyperslab buffer when a dataset is bigger than H5TOOLS_MALLOCSIZE */
 H5TOOLS_DLLVAR hsize_t H5TOOLS_BUFSIZE;
-H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int  g_nTasks;
-H5TOOLS_DLLVAR unsigned char g_Parallel;
-H5TOOLS_DLLVAR char    outBuff[];
-H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int  outBuffOffset;
-H5TOOLS_DLLVAR FILE *   overflow_file;
-
 /*
  * begin get_option section
  */
@@ -51,7 +45,7 @@ H5TOOLS_DLLVAR const char *opt_arg;     /* flag argument (or value)
 
 enum {
     no_arg = 0,         /* doesn't take an argument     */
-    require_arg,        /* requires an argument	        */
+    require_arg,        /* requires an argument          */
     optional_arg        /* argument is optional         */
 };
 
@@ -62,23 +56,23 @@ enum {
  * the option. The long options are specified in the following way:
  *
  * struct long_options foo[] = {
- * 	{ "filename", require_arg, 'f' },
- * 	{ "append", no_arg, 'a' },
- * 	{ "width", require_arg, 'w' },
- * 	{ NULL, 0, 0 }
+ *   { "filename", require_arg, 'f' },
+ *   { "append", no_arg, 'a' },
+ *   { "width", require_arg, 'w' },
+ *   { NULL, 0, 0 }
  * };
  *
  * Long named options can have arguments specified as either:
  *
- * 	``--param=arg'' or ``--param arg''
+ *   ``--param=arg'' or ``--param arg''
  *
  * Short named options can have arguments specified as either:
  *
- * 	``-w80'' or ``-w 80''
+ *   ``-w80'' or ``-w 80''
  *
  * and can have more than one short named option specified at one time:
  *
- * 	-aw80
+ *   -aw80
  *
  * in which case those options which expect an argument need to come at the
  * end.
@@ -119,7 +113,7 @@ typedef struct find_objs_t {
     table_t *dset_table;
 } find_objs_t;
 
-H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     nCols;               /*max number of columns for outputting  */
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int     h5tools_nCols;               /*max number of columns for outputting  */
 
 /* Definitions of useful routines */
 H5TOOLS_DLL void     indentation(int);
@@ -136,7 +130,7 @@ H5TOOLS_DLL herr_t init_objs(hid_t fid, find_objs_t *info, table_t **group_table
     table_t **dset_table, table_t **type_table);
 H5TOOLS_DLL obj_t   *search_obj(table_t *temp, haddr_t objno);
 #ifndef H5_HAVE_TMPFILE
-H5TOOLS_DLL FILE *	tmpfile(void);
+H5TOOLS_DLL FILE *  tmpfile(void);
 #endif
 
 /*************************************************************
@@ -178,4 +172,4 @@ H5TOOLS_DLL int h5tools_getenv_update_hyperslab_bufsize(void);
 }
 #endif
 
-#endif	/* H5TOOLS_UTILS_H__ */
+#endif  /* H5TOOLS_UTILS_H__ */
diff --git a/tools/lib/ph5diff.h b/tools/lib/ph5diff.h
index becbd6c..b098082 100644
--- a/tools/lib/ph5diff.h
+++ b/tools/lib/ph5diff.h
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@
 #define MPI_TAG_END    7
 #define MPI_TAG_PARALLEL  8
 
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int	g_nTasks;
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR unsigned char g_Parallel;
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR char    outBuff[];
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR int	outBuffOffset;
+H5TOOLS_DLLVAR FILE *	overflow_file;
+
 struct diff_mpi_args
 {
     char  name1[256];