3.3.1.34. NXnote

Status:

base class, extends NXobject

Description:

Any additional freeform information not covered by the other base classes.

This class can be used to store additional information in a NeXus file e.g. pictures, movies, audio, additional text logs

Symbols:

No symbol table

Groups cited:

none

Structure:

author: (optional) NX_CHAR

Author or creator of note

date: (optional) NX_DATE_TIME

Date note created/added

type: (optional) NX_CHAR

Mime content type of note data field e.g. image/jpeg, text/plain, text/html

file_name: (optional) NX_CHAR

Name of original file name if note was read from an external source

description: (optional) NX_CHAR

Title of an image or other details of the note

sequence_index: (optional) NX_POSINT

Sequence index of note, for placing a sequence of multiple NXnote groups in an order. Starts with 1.

data: (optional) NX_BINARY

Binary note data - if text, line terminator is [CR][LF].

NXDL Source:

https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/blob/master/base_classes/NXnote.nxdl.xml