openPMD-validator 1.0.0.0

Validator and examples for openPMD format

openPMD Validator Scripts
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This repository contains scripts to validate existing files that (claim to)
implement the [openPMD Standard](https://github.com/openPMD/openPMD-standard)
in version `1.0.*`.

Additional scripts to create random/empty files with the valid markup of the
standard are also provided.


Rationale
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These tools are intended for developers that want to implementent the standard.
They were written to allow an easy *implement-test-correct* workflow without
the hazzle to check every word of the written standard twice.

Nevertheless, these scripts can not validate 100% of the standard and uncovered
sections shall be cross-checked manually with the words of the written
standard.

For more information on requirements for implementations, please refer to the
section
[*Implementations*](https://github.com/openPMD/openPMD-standard/blob/1.0.0/STANDARD.md#implementations)
of the openPMD standard. The repository
[openPMD-projects](https://github.com/openPMD/openPMD-projects)
also lists a large collection of open source projects that already implement
the openPMD standard.


Development
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The development of these scripts is carried out *per-branch*.
Each branch corresponds to a certain version of the standard and might
be updated in case tests did contain bugs or we found a way to cover more
sections of the standard.