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HDF5 in C with NAPI
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Code examples are provided in this section that write 2-D data
to a NeXus HDF5 file in the C language using the :ref:`NAPI`.

The following code reads a two-dimensional set ``counts``
with dimension scales of ``t`` and ``phi`` using
local routines, and then writes a NeXus file containing a single
``NXentry`` group and a single ``NXdata`` group.
This is the simplest data file that conforms to the NeXus standard.

NAPI C Example: write simple NeXus file
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.. note:: This example uses the signal/axes attributes applied to the
   data field, as described in :ref:`Design-FindPlottable-ByName`.
   New code should use the method described in :ref:`Design-FindPlottable-NIAC2014`.

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