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From: Robert H. <ha...@st...> - 2015-01-28 19:23:39
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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 |