Re: Tool for NcML to netCDF? (fwd)

Hi Michael,

Here's the information on tools and APIs for converting from netCDF
to NcML and back.  Recall that NcML is an XML dialect for
representing netCDF data.  So it looks like tools are available for
this and nothing new needs to be written.

--Russ

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Date:    Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:02:10 -0700
From:    John Caron <address@hidden>
To:      address@hidden
cc:      address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: Tool for NcML to netCDF?

Russ Rew wrote:

>John,
>
>I just got a call from Michael Fene' <address@hidden> asking
>about whether he could use NcML as an intermediary for passing netCDF
>data around in a Web services context.  He wants to know how difficult
>it is to convert between netCDF and NcML.  I seem to remember that you
>may have the equivalent of ncdump and ncgen for NcML instead of CDL,
>but maybe I remember wrong.  Do such programs exist?
>
>Thanks!
>
>--Russ
>  
>
ucar.nc2.dataset.FileWriter will take any NcML  dataset or (dods 
dataset) and write a local netcdf file.

if you want to go the other way, ucar.nc2.NetcdfFile.writeNcML() will 
write NcML from any netcdf file.

the netCDF toolsUI has a UI to both:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf-java/v2.1/webstart/index.html

so does TDV:

  
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/webstart/Viewer/index.html

no documentation, sorry

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