# Axis swapped with XDMF TopologyType="3DCORECTMesh"

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/axis-swapped-with-xdmf-topologytype-3dcorectmesh/3059
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 27, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/axis-swapped-with-xdmf-topologytype-3dcorectmesh/3059 "2019-11-27T14:09:08Z")
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### Author: ![reox](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/reox/32/16237_2.png) [@reox](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/reox)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/axis-swapped-with-xdmf-topologytype-3dcorectmesh/3059/4 "2024-07-26T10:57:06Z")

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This seems to be quite a trap, as the documentation ([XDMF Model and Format - XdmfWeb](https://www.xdmf.org/index.php/XDMF_Model_and_Format#Geometry)) says the values are x,y,z - but apparently they are swapped in the reader, for example: [VTK/IO/Xdmf2/vtkXdmfReaderInternal.cxx at ff6e52da50e3b29f5c18de6d7a9e14d39548c8bb · Kitware/VTK · GitHub](https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/ff6e52da50e3b29f5c18de6d7a9e14d39548c8bb/IO/Xdmf2/vtkXdmfReaderInternal.cxx#L434-L448)

Is that just an error in the documentation?

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