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Introduction to HDF5 
HDF5 User Guide 
And in this document, the HDF5 Reference Manual 
H5DS   H5IM   H5LT   H5PT   H5TB 
H5   H5A   H5D   H5E   H5F   H5G   H5I 
H5L   H5O   H5P   H5R   H5S   H5T   H5Z 
Tools   Datatypes   Fortran   Compatibility Macros 
Collective Calls in Parallel 

(Printable PDF of this Reference Manual) 

H5P: Property List Interface

Property List API Functions

These functions manipulate property list objects to allow objects which require many different parameters to be easily manipulated.
In the following lists, italic type indicates a configurable macro.

The C Interfaces:
General Property List
Operations

Generic Property List Functions

Link Creation Properties

Link Access Properties

Object Copy and
Object Creation Properties

String Properties

   

Group Creation Properties

File Creation Properties

File Access Properties
    Dataset Creation Properties

Dataset Access, Memory, and
Transfer Properties


 
 
 
    ||   Indicates functions
          available only in the
          parallel HDF5 library.

 
    *   Use of these functions
          is deprecated in
          Release 1.8.0.

Alphabetical Listing
       
      ||  Available only in the
        parallel HDF5 library.

The FORTRAN90 Interfaces:
In general, each FORTRAN90 subroutine performs exactly the same task as the corresponding C function.

     
General Property List Operations

Generic Properties

Link Access Properties

Group Creation Properties Object Copy and
Object Creation Properties
    File Creation Properties File Access Properties String Properties    

Dataset Creation Properties

Dataset Access, Memory, and
Transfer Properties

 
    ||   Indicates functions
          available only in the
          parallel HDF5 library.

 
    *   Use of these functions
          is deprecated in
          Release 1.8.0.


HDF5 documents and links 
Introduction to HDF5 
HDF5 User Guide 
And in this document, the HDF5 Reference Manual 
H5DS   H5IM   H5LT   H5PT   H5TB 
H5   H5A   H5D   H5E   H5F   H5G   H5I 
H5L   H5O   H5P   H5R   H5S   H5T   H5Z 
Tools   Datatypes   Fortran   Compatibility Macros 
Collective Calls in Parallel 

(Printable PDF of this Reference Manual) 

The HDF Group Help Desk:
Describes HDF5 Release 1.8.7, targeted for May 2011.