[Paraview] xdmf issues with paraview 2.6.2?

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

ParaView's XDMF reader was significantly revamped in past possibly
3.8, I can't remember.So it's possible that older versions don't
support all xdmf files.

Utkarsh

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Pratik Mallya <pratik.mallya at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am currently using 3.10...but since clusters in my office have 3.6.2
> installed i tried to use that version. However, for this file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []>
> <Xdmf>
>   <Domain Name="test.xdmf">
>               <Grid Name="TensGrid">
>                   <Topology TopologyType="2DSMesh" Dimensions = "256 256 ">
>                   </Topology>
>                   <Geometry GeometryType="X_Y">
>                           <DataItem Dimensions="256 256" NumberType="Float"
> Precision="8" Format="HDF">
>                               Q.h5:/X
>                           </DataItem>
>                           <DataItem Dimensions="256 256 " NumberType="Float"
> Precision="8" Format="HDF">
>                               Q.h5:/Y
>                           </DataItem>
>                   </Geometry>
>                   <Attribute Name="S" Center="Node" AttributeType="Scalar"
> Precision="8">
>                       <DataItem Format="HDF" Center="Node"
> NumberType="Float" Dimensions="256 256" Precision="8">
>                           Q.h5:/S
>                       </DataItem>
>                   </Attribute>
>                   <Attribute Name="sig" Center="Node"
>  AttributeType="Tensor" Precision="8">
>                       <DataItem  Format="HDF" NumberType="Float"
> Dimensions="256 256 8" Precision="8">
>                           Q.h5:/Q
>                       </DataItem>
>                   </Attribute>                 </Grid>
>   </Domain>
> </Xdmf>
> ....a simple xdmf for reading data, paraview 3.6 gives an error:
>
> ERROR: In
> /home/pratik/Manually_Installed_Softwares/numerical/ParaView/ParaView-3.6.2/VTK/Filtering/vtkDataSet.cxx,
> line 406
>
> vtkStructuredGrid (0xb091888): Point array sig with 9 components, only has
> 14563 tuples but there are 65536 points
>
>
> whereas 3.10 does not.
> Was there a different format for reading xdmf files in pv3.6? I did try
> playing around with the dimensions, but it still didn't work.
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