Merge pull request #1292 from woutdenolf/fix_1291

the value of a directional NXtransformations field is ignored
nexusformat · Sep 12, 2023 · 0900288 · 0900288
2 parents 8867bb6 + 6858cf9
commit 0900288
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/base_classes/NXtransformations.nxdl.xml b/base_classes/NXtransformations.nxdl.xml
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@
 				If this attribute is omitted, this is an axis for which there
 				is no motion to be specifies, such as the direction of gravity,
 				or the direction to the source, or a basis vector of a
-				coordinate frame.
+				coordinate frame. In this case the value of the ``AXISNAME`` field
+				is not used and can be set to the number ``NaN``.
 			</doc>
 			<enumeration>
 				<item value="translation" />