How will CML develop?
In the spirit of the WWW, the latest version of the CML draft will be published on http://www.xml-cml.org/. Versioning will be by date (in ISO 8601 format). It is intended that these drafts remain current for sufficient time for readers to use or implement prototype CML systems. It is particularly difficult for software implementers to have to support several moving drafts. The XML effort has emphasised this, with ambition sometimes running ahead of the corporate resources of the community to implement and test software. It is therefore important that there is an initial simple version of CML that can be supported and is guaranteed free from change, even though later versions may be more powerful. For this reason we have deliberately omitted complex operations such as reactions and combinatorial chemistry. XSL has implied support for transformation between different document types. Therefore if syntax changes in the future there will be an algorithmic method for transforming older vers
