<div dir="ltr">Hi Gerrick,<div><br></div><div style>The time support that is in the single dataset XML writers was never extended to support multi-block dataset. There are several ways of doing what you want. The simplest would be to write out a time series (1 vtm file per time step) and then use a reader that can handle that. Before I get into more details, what are you trying to accomplish? What will you do with the time series?</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-berk</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Gerrick Bivins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Gerrick.Bivins@halliburton.com" target="_blank">Gerrick.Bivins@halliburton.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">After seeing a post this morning about “<a href="http://vtk.1045678.n5.nabble.com/Separation-of-lt-Points-gt-and-lt-Cells-gt-datablocks-from-Unstructured-Grid-vtu-files-td5720669.html" target="_blank">Seperation of <Points> and <Cells> datablock from UnstructuredGrid
(.vtu) files</a>”,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I thought it might be possible to use this to write out MultiBlock/Composite files temporally . Unfortunately, it looks like the settings<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">from the root CompositeDataWriter aren’t passed to the data writers for the leaves. It also seems to ignore putting the<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“TimeValues” type information in the meta file (root xml file for the multiblock dataset).<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For the leaves, the settings issue causes problems with the writing of those blocks:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1)Time information is not present<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2) written files are invalid xml as the file begins with a broken offset tag something like:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> offset="6468764"0"?><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Issue 2 can be seen by simply attempting to write out an xml multiblock file.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I worked around it by setting the code writer to Binary mode explicitly.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Are these bugs or known limitations of multiblock format?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gerrick<u></u><u></u></p>
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