On Jul 30 2007, Jonas Frantz wrote:

>
>Hi,
>
> all I'm trying to accomplish here is to add information on 
> crystalstructures of elements to bodr.
>
> The examples given below in the earlier discussion is only my suggestions 
> to how this could be solved, I have not taken into account correctness of 
> the namespace (I regard that as something to agree upon as long as we can 
> settle that this is something that we want to add). The namespace I use 
> should only be regarded as temporary.
>
I'm not constraining people to use CML - but suggesting that if they do 
they should avoid nnamespace collisions.

The advantage of creating your own markup language is that you can say what 
you like - the disadvantage is that not everyone else (and that include 
machines) may be able to understand you.

>IMHO the best (the most flexible) way of adding this would be:
>
>- to elements.xml
>   - a <lattice> tag, this tag takes an abundance property describing the 
> ratio of this crystal structure in nature.
>      - <latticestructure> tag that describes the type of lattive, Bravais
>lattice nam, i.e. hcp, fcc, bcc and so on
>      - <lattice_[a/b/c]> tags to describe the length of the unit cell 
> vectors a,b,c
>      - <lattice_[alfa/beta/gamma] tags to describe the angles of the 
> unit cell vectors a,b,c
>

This is all possible at present within CML. The benefit you get is tyhat 
there is already code that does some of the operations you may want - e.g. 
work out the cell volume for a triclinic cell.

>- to crystalstructure.xml
>   - describe the vectors to each atom within one unit cell for each 
> lattice structure in terms of lattice vector names
>
> By giving the abundance property one can add not only the most common 
> structure, but also all of the others with their corresponding ratios of 
> occurance in nature.

CML also has an abundance element. It was actually developed for isotopes. 
I am not clear what the abundance of a lattice is - is it actually the 
abundance of a polymorph or allotrope (which is a different concept)? If so 
it would be reasonable to include the abundance element.

P.



>
>I hope I managed to express myself clearly enough to make my point.
>
>

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Chemistry Department, Cambridge University
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