Purpose:
Renamed old "HDF5 User's Guide" as "HDF5 User's Guide, Release 1.4.5".
Added navigation bar link to new user's guide on HDF server.
Changed release tag line (in old UG only) back to
"Describes HDF5 Release 1.4.5, February 200 3"
Platforms tested:
IE 5
Purpose:
Add short copyright notice.
Update release tag line.
Description:
Added short copyright notice as comment in source files;
does not display in browser.
Updated release tag line in footers to read as follows:
Describes HDF5 Release 1.6.0, July 2003
Platforms tested:
IE 5
Purpose:
DreamWeaver (DW) adaptation of the HDF5 doc set, introducing the use of
stylesheets and DW libraries.
Stylesheets -- for consistent format management.
DW libraries -- for managing common elements across documents.
Platforms tested:
IE 5 and 6
Netscape
Purpose:
Correcting docs to match code bugfixes.
Solution:
Changed per recent bugfix in code:
H5Tconvert 'nelmts' parameter type
H5Pset_buffer 'size' parameter type
H5Pget_buffer return type
Removed H5Pset_compression (commented it out, actually) and
changed example which used it to use H5Pset_deflate.
H5.format.html
Driver Identification block: Added clarification regarding the
representation of the version in the driver identification string.
Groups.html
Added note that object names (in Groups.html) or dataset
names (in Datasets.html) must be unique.
Changed 'boot block' to 'super block'. (Groups.html only)
Files.html
Minor formatting fixes.
Datatypes.html
H5Tconvert: Added plist_id parameter.
References.html
Deleted "not implemented" and related messages.
Added description of H5Rget_object_type.
Deleted all material about internal dataset region references.
[Unlikely to be implemented (QK) and there was very little info.]
Commented out references to H5R_BADTYPE. [This appeared in the
list of "valid types", which it is not. And user is instructed
to test for 'a negative value' rather than 'H5R_BADTYPE'.
So this was deemed not to be user-level information.]
Changed 'boot block' to 'super block'.
Other minor editing changes.
been checked into "HDF5 Development" branch.
General
=======
Various "copy edit" types of repairs.
Revisions to document cross-linking.
Added structural links tying all docs together (banners
at top and bottom of documents, similar to Reference Manual
banners of the Beta release).
Set background color to white in all documents.
NCSAfooterlogo.gif
hdf2.jpg
New image files to make the documents more self-contained
(i.e., to prevent loading images from NCSA and HDF home servers).
index.html
Redesigned to isolate links external to the installation
in a single location.
Intro to HDF5
=============
H5.intro.html
Fixed banner linking Intro to other docs.
Set all URLs to be relative within the distribution; nothing
points back to the HDF server.
Updates to "Limits of the Current Release" and "Changes in
the Current Release."
HDF5 User's Guide
=================
Changed several User Guide section titles such that all
sections that are primarily about a particular interface
are now titled in the format "The xxxxx Interface (H5x)".
H5.user.html
Commented out links to developer docs since they are marked
in MANIFEST as not being for distribution in the release.
Removed 2nd and 3rd indices from page.
Changed "freeform" lists of sections (TOCs) to aligned tables.
Datatypes.html
Removed the sentence "I'm deferring definition until later
since they're probably not as important as the other data
types." from Section 3.3, "Properties of Date and Time
Atomic Types."
Added info regarding 'char' versus 'string' datatypes. Added
as Section 3.7, "Character and String Datatype Issues."
References.html
Commented out substantial material (at end of document) from
References planning document that is not appropriate for
the User Guide but that is worth keeping around.
Groups.html
Final edits from elimination of "current working group."
HDF5 Reference Manual
=====================
Removed "Draft" from the <title>__</title> lines.
RM_H5Front.html
Removed 2nd and 3rd indices from page.
Changed "freeform" lists of sections (TOCs) to aligned tables.
RM_H5F.html
RM_H5P.html
Add file mounting information.
A little editorial cleanup.
Added link to Ragged.html, Ragged Arrays.
Added link to Environment.html, Environmental Variables and
Configuration Parameters.
Added link to Copyright.html.
Ragged.html
Added "Use at your own risk" notice.
Environment.html
New file for environmental variables and configuration parameters.
Datatypes.html
Added the following datatypes:
H5T_NATIVE_HSIZE
H5T_NATIVE_HSSIZE
H5T_NATIVE_HERR
H5T_NATIVE_HBOOL
Section 8, "Data Conversions"
Added named link tag to catch hyperlink from RM.
Revised "Note:" to emphasize limited inate data-conversion capability.
Copyright.html
New file.
Copyright statement, linked into User's Guide and Reference Manual.
Glossary.html
Unlinked for Beta.
General
Changed email link at bottom of "user guide level documents"
(as contrasted with "developer guide level documents"
listed on the lower half of the User's Guide front page)
to HDF Help Desk, hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
Changed the following function names:
From: To:
H5version H5get_libversion
H5vers_check H5check_version
H5Anum_attrs H5Aget_num_attrs
H5Fget_create_template() H5Fget_create_plist()
H5Fget_access_template() H5Fget_access_plist()
H5Gstat H5Gget_stat
H5Sextent_npoints H5Sget_simple_extent_npoints
H5Sextent_ndims H5Sget_simple_extent_ndims
H5Sextent_dims H5Sget_simple_extent_dims
H5Sget_class H5Sget_simple_extent_type
H5Sselect_npoints H5Sget_select_npoints
