Re: [Jmol-developers] valid cif file?

[Bob H. <ha...@st...>]

I agree with what you have said before, Miguel, that if you start reading=
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"bogus" CIF files, you are starting down into a deep dark hole.

I vote to not support invalid CIF files.

Some documentation on our site that we could point users to in defense of=
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position would be a nice compromise. If it's just the inclusion of "data_=
" for=20
example at the top of a file, users can figure out how to insert that pri=
or to=20
their naughty program getting upgraded.


Miguel wrote:

>>I think
>>
>>http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/spec/version1.1/cifsyntax.html#syntax
>>
>>is pretty clear on this (data_ required):
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> Q: What should our stance be on the support of invalid .cif files?
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> Q: The iucr wants people to refuse to read them in order to encourage
> companies to be compliant ... should we support their position?
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> Miguel
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