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Dear Colleagues,

   The quesion is one of a good C++ CIF parser.  For objective C, there
is Phil Bourne's OOSTAR.  Peter Murray-Rust had a C++ DDL1 package
in the mid 90's.  The various RCSB C-based packages can, of course,
be used with C++.  The same can be said of CBFlib.

   For CBFlib, in particular, while the question is a CIF question than an 
imgCIF question, it is timely in terms of other efforts in the CBFlib API 
for imgCIF.  CBFlib is seeing increasing use in a range of languages,
As noted above, CBFlib is a C api, but it can be and is used in C++ 
applications, but this would be a good time to add proper 
object-oriented C++ hooks.

   For a proper C++ class library the question is of moving the functions 
in the API in under various class, and changing from malloc-style memory 
management to use of new-style constructors and appropriate destructors.

   In a related context, python, Jon Wright has done one possible class 
organization in his pycbf python bindings for CBFlib.

   I am copying this message to the imgcif list to see who might wish to 
contribute to the effort.

   Regards,
     Herbert
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  Herbert J. Bernstein, Professor of Computer Science
    Dowling College, Kramer Science Center, KSC 121
         Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY, 11769

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On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Sydney Hall wrote:

> Hi David. I'm just back from a trip and am gradually catching up on my
> mail. The answer to your question is probably no... but I'll copy this
> to others who may be more up to date on this matter.
>
> Cheers
> Syd
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> Emeritus Professor Syd Hall
> School Biomedical, Biomolecular & Chemical Sciences
> University of Western Australia
> Crawley, 6009  AUSTRALIA.
> Ph: +61 (8) 6488 2725
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> On 02/10/2007, at 11:37 PM, David Watkin wrote:
>
>> Syd,
>>    Is there a good library in C++ for processing cif?
>> The one in C is fine of it's kind, but it would be nice to have something 
>> homogeneous with our other codes.
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> David
>> 
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>