[Jmol-developers] Error report on opening files (and CML de

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Unless I have missed a window or dialog, when Jmol fails to Open a file 
successfully there is no obvious report of problems and no indication that 
the Open has failed (the existing molecule or contents remain). It could be 
useful to have a dialog which announces the failure - and where possible 
diagnostics.

I encountered the problem when reading CML files without an XML declaration 
(<?xml version="1.0" ... ?>). It seems that Jmol requires this. (It's not 
required by the XML spec). It is a useful way of announcing that a file is 
XML but I suspect that many CML files don't have it and users don't 
understand why Jmol fails. If possible I would recommend that it was not 
mandatory and that the file type was specified by the file selector and/or 
suffix.

P.



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