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Hi Nick, > Reposting as this never made it through the list for some reason. The question did appear on the netcdf-java mailing list last week, but only John Caron could answer it. He's on vacation until some time next week. I imagine there will eventually be such support, but I don't know what the schedule for making the API public would be. Note that the Java ncdump utility can output values for coordinate variables, and also I believe the netCDF Java toolsUI utility can output values for other variables. For now, I recommend looking at the code in ucar.nc2.ncml.NcMLWriter.writeXML() and ucar.nc2.NCdump.main(). John may have a better answer when he gets back to answering email. --Russ