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Re: 20051028:Is there a .nc <-> .xml tool available?

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  • Subject: Re: 20051028:Is there a .nc <-> .xml tool available?
  • Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:13:58 -0700
Hi Dave,

Ed wrote:
> > Is there a package like the ncxdump/ncxgen from
> > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/Contrib.html that works with
> > ncml?
 ...
> Sorry, I don't believe there is such a tool. I will copy this response
> to Russ Rew and John Caron. If there is such a tool, one of them will
> know about it.
> 
> However, in versio 4.0 of netCDF (due to release in beta early next
> year), we plan for ncgen/ncdump to be able to handle ncml.

The latest Java netCDF interface does what you want.  A previous reply
I have from John Caron said:

  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/v2.2/webstart/index.html

  so does the THREDDS Data Server:

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

Also, the current checked in code for netCDF 3.6.1 supports a "-x" option
to ncdump that produces NcML instead of CDL, but it's not available in
a release yet, unfortunately.

--Russ