Re: [Jmol-users] PDB format replacement

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

I still don't understand your point, Rolf. mmCIF provides a very simple
format -- about as simple as XYZ format, as you can see there in what I
sent. You can design it just about any way you like; it's extremely easy to
parse with a program and easy to read as a human. Why the griping? XML
requires a huge amount of redundant meta information just to present a few
variables. The ONLY thing that is annoying to me is the quoting business,
which is definitely insane.

In terms of parsers for *all *the information in an mmCIF file, there are
several out there.  I happen to think Jmol's is the best. It's
Java/JavaScript; there are C++ versions as well. Basically, when you load
JSmol, you have a complete CIF parser right there in the DOM. Why write a
new one?

Bob