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Proposal: Make iteration based attributes "required" only if iteration data is stored

Open DavidSagan opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

The following iteration related attributes are marked as required:

  • iterationEncoding
  • iterationFormat
  • time
  • dt

This makes no sense unless iteration based data is being stored and therefore these attributes should only be required when storing iteration based data.

DavidSagan avatar Oct 31 '20 16:10 DavidSagan

Thank you for the proposal. I agree that this can simplify the standard and will incorporate it with the upcoming changes I need to do for iterationEncoding for ADIOS2.

ax3l avatar Nov 07 '20 03:11 ax3l