Allow creation of empty NcML document
huard opened this issue · 1 comments
huard commented
Description
The current code assumes we're reading an existing NcML, but one use case is to create an NcML from scratch, that refers to an existing netCDF file.
I suggest to modify the signature of Dataset to
def Dataset(filepath: str, location: str):
where filepath is the path to a NcML file, and location the path to a netCDF file (existing or not). If filepath does not exist, then Dataset creates an empty xml
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2" location={location}>
</netcdf>