On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Craig James wrote:
> CEX never came to anything, you can probably ignore it.
I agree. I listed it to flesh out some of the history. There are decades of
history of people, and even groups of people from different companies, who have
tried to develop chemistry exchange formats. Knowledge of what happened should
help understand what makes something "open" vs. not.
> It was conceived before XML, and based on Daylight's TDT spec (which itself
> was ahead of its time relative to XML formats) and SMILES.
Dave said the same thing. It's a common statement from anyone who's worked with
S-expressions. As I recall, TDT's only had two levels of depth while CEX
removed that limit. In any case, one of the things about XML was support from
the start for Unicode.
(I heard about a fun bug in ... Pipeline Pilot? ... some SOAP-based system? ...
a call crashed when given a price in £ because it didn't expect non-ASCII
input.)
> Daylight published source code and a document, but it never went anywhere.
You wouldn't happen to have a copy hanging around somewhere, do you? I recall
looking at it and not liking it because it was meant as an API, with a byte
serialization stream which wasn't exposed to the outside world. In that sense
it was like a CORBA spec, where people weren't expected to muck directly with
the bytes on the wire.
Andrew
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