[MOAB-dev] Conventions for naming entity sets

[Timothy Tautges]

I recommend using the NAME conventional tag, which is described in the
documentation.  One current shortcoming is that that tag is fixed size (32
bytes); that convention was established before we had variable-length tags,
which would be a better solution.  I don't recommend a new tag for each new
name, as getting the name for an entity in that case would be impossible
without already knowing the name itself, in which case you don't need to
query it.
 On Jul 16, 2014 10:42 AM, "Gerd Heber" <gheber at hdfgroup.org> wrote:

> It appears that the simplest way to name an entity set is
> to create a tag with that name and a dummy tag value.
> (I'm not thinking about large numbers of entity sets, I might have a few
> dozen.)
>
> 1. Am I missing something that's more straightforward?
>
> 2. Are there conventions regarding the tag type (sparse, dense)
>    or tag value type (bit, integer)?
>
> Thanks for your comments.
> G.
>
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