The CDF toolkit program SkeletonCDF is provided to make the task of creating a CDF easier for a programmer. SkeletonCDF reads a specially formatted text file called a skeleton table and generates a skeleton CDF. Everything about a CDF can be specified in a skeleton table except data values for variables that vary from record to record (record-variant). The toolkit program SkeletonTable is also provided. It reads an existing CDF and produces a skeleton table. The skeleton table for the CDF created using only the CDF library in Section 1.9.1 would be as follows.
Assuming that SkeletonCDF was used to create a CDF containing the metadata and data in the above skeleton table, the following Fortran program would be used to complete the creation of the CDF.
The CDF was opened (since it already existed) and the values for only the Time and Temperature rVariables were written to the CDF. All of the other functions performed by the program in Section 1.9.1 were done by the SkeletonCDF program when it read the skeleton table.