[Open Babel] ChemDraw CDX and CDXML format

[Peter Murray-R. <pm...@ca...>]

Is anyone working on an OpenBabel reader for ChemDraw files (*.cdx)? I have 
recently implemented a Java CDX reader (which converts to CDXML and thence 
to CML) using the specs on the Cambridgesoft Web pages (thanks!). If anyone 
has also worked on this for OpenBabel I'd be happy to compare notes. If 
not, It should be fairly straightforward to convert my Java reader to C++ 
and I could make it available.

Note that ChemDraw supports a very wide range of graphics objects and other 
chemical concepts (reactions, complex aggregates) which are outwith Babel's 
scope. However it seems possible to convert single molecules or simple 
aggregates to CML (and thence to Babel formats)

P.