[Scilab-users] HDF5 file : how to access HDF5 compound elements

[amonmayr at laas.fr]

Hi all,

Almost everything is in the title: I am trying to load in scilab the 
content of an HDF5 file and some of the datasets are of type compound of 
array of variable length:

h5dump(xyg)
DATASET "XY Graph" {
    DATATYPE H5T_COMPOUND {
             H5T_VLEN { H5T_IEEE_F64LE } "elem1";
             H5T_VLEN { H5T_IEEE_F64LE } "elem2";
    }
    DATASPACE SCALAR
    STORAGE_LAYOUT {
       CONTIGUOUS
       SIZE 0
       OFFSET 18446744073709551615
    }
    DATA {
    (0): {
       (),
       ()
    }
    }
}


How can I access elem1 and elem2?
I tried things like:
     xyg.data
     xyg.elem1
     xyg.data.elem1
     xyg.compound.whatever
without success...

Any clue?

Cheers,

Antoine

PS: I can give you an example hdf5 file if needed, but it's quite big!