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diff --git a/src/H5Amodule.h b/src/H5Amodule.h index 707fc54..09e6c4a 100644 --- a/src/H5Amodule.h +++ b/src/H5Amodule.h @@ -29,4 +29,21 @@ #define H5_MY_PKG_ERR H5E_ATTR #define H5_MY_PKG_INIT YES +/**\defgroup H5A H5A + * \brief Attribute Interface + * + * \details The Attribute Interface, H5A, provides a mechanism for attaching + * additional information to a dataset, group, or named datatype. + * + * Attributes are accessed by opening the object that they are + * attached to and are not independent objects. Typically an + * attribute is small in size and contains user metadata about the + * object that it is attached to. + * + * Attributes look similar to HDF5 datasets in that they have a + * datatype and dataspace. However, they do not support partial + * I/O operations and cannot be compressed or extended. + * + */ + #endif /* _H5Amodule_H */ |