Re: [Jmol-users] Jmol-11 does not accept blank lines in CIF

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On Tue, August 29, 2006 11:49 am, Alan Hewat wrote:
>
> Well a line starting with a hash such as #Jmolscript: will get carried as
> a comment by any CIF parser (I hope) so that should be CIF OK.
>
The problem is that it is up to the individual parser. Parsers are also
allowed to rearrange dataitems since CIFs are not order dependent. So,
unless the parser is written to not only retain comment lines but also
maintain their order a CIF that is rewritten by the parser may garble the
comment-based information. I know there are publication-related parsers
that rely on #start #end type comment lines (for no good reason other than
sloppy programming, afaict) but I'm not aware of parsers that operate
based on multi-line comments. DO you have pointers to any Alan?

Rich