CIFXML: A schema and toolkit for managing CIFs in XML

Abstract

CIFXML applies the XML strategies and technologies to create a general interface for processing CIF documents that conform to the CIF syntax and DDL1. Both a DTD and an XML schema for CIFs are presented. CIFs can be read, edited, validated syntactically, sorted, normalized, filtered, stored as an XML document object model, transformed and output. CIFXOM provides an easy way of converting CIFs to XML and vice versa using Java. © 2011 International Union of Crystallography Printed in Singapore - all rights reserved.