Whats special about CML?
Many people see XML as the way forward for all information and CML provides support for chemistry. It’s the only approach that is Open, has a wide range of tools and is designed to interoperate with many other XML-based systems. There are many things that can only be done with XML/CML. XML files are extensible in that new concepts can be added – CML provides this through its unique dictionary-based system. Namespaces allow many different disciplines to be combined, such as graphics, maths, text, biology, etc. XML is ideally suited for data capture, archiving and publishing. It is being heavily adopted by regulators, government agencies, and publishers. The extensibility means that complex object structures are easy to manage. Thus CML can manage a hierarchy of molecules containing other molecules, and this can support macromolecules, salts, complexes, etc. Complete scientific articles can be written in CMl and searched and published using new XML tools. Most current molecular formats a
