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HDF5 High Level APIs

NOTE: As of the HDF5-1.6.4 release, the HDF5 High Level C
APIs were folded into the main HDF5 Library. The High
Level Fortran APIs are NOT available with HDF5-1.6.x series,
but ARE included in the HDF5 1.8.x releases.

The HDF5 High Level APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) consist of a set of functions built on top of the basic HDF5 library. The purpose of this software is to simplify the steps needed to create objects in HDF5.

In the 1.6.x releases (starting with 1.6.4), there are high level interfaces for creating images (H5IM), tables (H5TB), and for working with datasets and attributes (H5LT).

Documentation:

H5IM
H5TB
H5LT
HDF5 Tutorial includes High Level APIs See the Release 1.8.x high level library pages for documentation of the high level libraries available in that release series.

- - Last modified:May 10th 2009