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Personally I'd vote for the category encoded values. If I make files with a newer xarray, I'll be reading them later with the same (or newer) xarray and I'd definitely...

So if I'm properly understanding and synthesizing your ( @benbovy and @shoyer ) comments: We want the hybrid format for maximum compatibility, with the MultiIndex split into separate 1D raw...

Here's a new, related question: @shoyer , do you have any interest in adding a class to xarray that contains a hierarchical tree of Datasets, analogous to the groups in...

Would it be too simplistic to think that `xarray.Dataset` (or a subclass of it) could be made to contain other Datasets? That would extend the conceptual map of `xarray.Dataset` HDF5...

Yes, I suppose it doesn't really need to live in core xarray, unless you did want to allow a `Dataset` to contain other `Dataset`s. @benbovy , do you plan to...