# Struggling to generate xdmf particle data that paraview can read

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/struggling-to-generate-xdmf-particle-data-that-paraview-can-read/11852
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 11, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/struggling-to-generate-xdmf-particle-data-that-paraview-can-read/11852 "2023-04-11T23:30:35Z")
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### Author: ![Yurlungur](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/yurlungur/32/11355_2.png) [@Yurlungur](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Yurlungur)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2023, 11:30pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/struggling-to-generate-xdmf-particle-data-that-paraview-can-read/11852/1 "2023-04-11T23:30:35Z")

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Hello, I am trying to generate particle data (from a mixed grid-particle calculation) that Paraview can parse. Since we already use hdf5 for our file format, I tried to construct an xdmf file to describe the dataset. I attach  
[particles.out0.final.phdf.xdmf](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/s4yhGs92VGhuo6kDdU4rWhryWor.xdmf) (3.6 KB)  
, which is a snippet of my xdmf output. Paraview registers the existence of both the particle positions and the “point arrays” but I cannot get it to actually generate an image. I assume I’m doing something wrong on the xdmf side. (hdf5 data not included.) Any help would be appreciated!