[Atholis]

Heyo!! I've been having troubles with Paraview's ability on reading timesteps. I'm using HDF5 and XDMF to view data in VisIt and Paraview. VisIt doesn't need a 'temporal collection' to view time steps, but Paraview does. Two of my xdmf files are below to give an idea on what I'm looking at. Grid is (30, 20, 10) written is staggered format with the original first and last values lopped off, which is why my dimensions look odd in the file.
(Please assume any typos in my xmf files are copy errors, the individual files are working fine)

Paraview_1000.xdmf

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []>
<Xdmf Version="2.0">
 <Domain>
   <Grid Name="mesh1" GridType="Uniform">
     <Topology TopologyType="3DSMesh" NumberOfElements="9 19 29"/>
     <Geometry GeometryType="X_Y_Z">
       <DataItem Dimensions="9 19 29" NumberType="Float" Precision="7" Format="HDF">
        1000_test.h5:/X
       </DataItem>
       <DataItem Dimensions="9 19 29" NumberType="Float" Precision="7" Format="HDF">
        1000_test.h5:/Y
       </DataItem>
       <DataItem Dimensions="9 19 29" NumberType="Float" Precision="7" Format="HDF">
        1000_test.h5:/Z
       </DataItem>
     </Geometry>
     <Attribute Name="Density" AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Cell">
       <DataItem Dimensions="8 18 28" NumberType="Float" Precision="7" Format="HDF">
        1000_test.h5:/Density
       </DataItem>
 <---------Lot's more data----------->
     </Grid>
 </Domain>
</Xdmf>

Paraview_1001.xdmf

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []>
<Xdmf Version="2.0">
 <Domain>
   <Grid Name="mesh1" GridType="Uniform">
     <Topology TopologyType="3DSMesh" NumberOfElements="9 19 29"/>
     <Geometry GeometryType="X_Y_Z">
       <DataItem Dimensions="9 19 29" NumberType="Float" Precision="7" Format="HDF">
        1001_test.h5:/X
       </DataItem>
       <DataItem Dimensions="9 19 29" NumberType="Float" Precision="7" Format="HDF">
        1001_test.h5:/Y
       </DataItem>
       <DataItem Dimensions="9 19 29" NumberType="Float" Precision="7" Format="HDF">
        1001_test.h5:/Z
       </DataItem>
     </Geometry>
     <Attribute Name="Density" AttributeType="Scalar" Center="Cell">
       <DataItem Dimensions="8 18 28" NumberType="Float" Precision="7" Format="HDF">
        1001_test.h5:/Density
       </DataItem>
     </Attribute>
<------even more data------>
    </Grid>
  </Domain>
</Xdmf>

I've looked online and have seen I need

GridType="Collection" CollectionType="Temporal"

for it, but I haven't seen anything that gives an example of how the syntax works. Any and all help is appreciated!

[hadrien51]

Hi Atholis
sorry I answer you very late but we deal with this also
If it can help you or some one else

look this example
it is CollectionType="Temporal
with <Time Type="Single" Value=" 0.00850" />
for each time step

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" [
<!ENTITY InitialHeavyData "data.mesh.h5">
]>
 
 <Xdmf>
  <Domain>
    <Grid Name="fensap" GridType="Collection" CollectionType="Temporal" >
 
    <Grid Name="fensap" Type="Uniform" >
    <Time Type="Single" Value="   0.00850" />
    <Topology Type="Mixed" NumberOfElements="     3848219">
     <DataStructure Dimensions="    19241095" NumberType="Int" Format="HDF" >fensap-mesh.h5:/CONNE </DataStructure>
     </Topology>
     <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
     <DataStructure Dimensions="3      778115" NumberType="Float" Presicion="8" Format="HDF" >fensap-mesh.h5:/COORD </DataStructure>
     </Geometry>
     <Attribute Name="VELOC" Center="Node" AttributeType="Vector"> 
     <DataStructure Format="HDF" DataType="Float" Precision="8" Dimensions="3      778115">fensap-0000001.h5:/VELOC </DataStructure>
     </Attribute>
     <Attribute Name="PRESS" Center="Node" AttributeType="Scalar"> 
     <DataStructure Format="HDF" DataType="Float" Precision="8" Dimensions="      778115">fensap-0000001.h5:/PRESS </DataStructure>
     </Attribute>
     </Grid>
 
    <Grid Name="fensap" Type="Uniform" >
    <Time Type="Single" Value="   0.01700" />
    <Topology Type="Mixed" NumberOfElements="     3848219">
     <DataStructure Dimensions="    19241095" NumberType="Int" Format="HDF" >fensap-mesh.h5:/CONNE </DataStructure>
     </Topology>
     <Geometry GeometryType="XYZ">
     <DataStructure Dimensions="3      778115" NumberType="Float" Presicion="8" Format="HDF" >fensap-mesh.h5:/COORD </DataStructure>
     </Geometry>
     <Attribute Name="VELOC" Center="Node" AttributeType="Vector"> 
     <DataStructure Format="HDF" DataType="Float" Precision="8" Dimensions="3      778115">fensap-0000002.h5:/VELOC </DataStructure>
     </Attribute>
     <Attribute Name="PRESS" Center="Node" AttributeType="Scalar"> 
     <DataStructure Format="HDF" DataType="Float" Precision="8" Dimensions="      778115">fensap-0000002.h5:/PRESS </DataStructure>
     </Attribute>
     </Grid>

    </Grid>
  </Domain>
 </Xdmf>