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Fix non-standard NXpositioner groups #195

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The writer for NXsample is writing transformations groups as NXpositioner, eg.

h5ls -vd file.nxs/entry/sample/
sample_phi               Group
    Attribute: NX_class scalar
        Type:      12-byte null-padded ASCII string
        Data:
               "NXpositioner"
    Location:  1:39098
    Links:     1

which contains

h5ls -v file.nxs/entry/sample/sample_phi
phi                      Dataset {75}
phi_end                  Dataset {75}
phi_increment_set        Dataset {SCALAR}

While NXsample might accept an NXpositioner group, these do not follow the standard, see here, and are actually NXtransformations groups.

Options to fix:

  1. Make NXpositioner groups indicating axes into NXtransformations group.
  2. Keep the NXpositioner group but move the axis_name fields into a further NXtransformations, making the tree look like /entry/sample/sample_phi/transformations/phi
  3. Remove the NXpositioner groups altogether and have all the relevant information only in /entry/sample/transformations

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