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Re: Whitespace in atom labels?

So long as we're confident that there are no instances with embeddedwhite space in the public archives, I would agree to this.
Brian
On 27/09/2021 13:20, Mike Hoyland via cif-developers wrote:> Very happy to support this.> > On Friday, 24 September 2021 01:56:43 BST James H via cif-developers wrote:>> Hello cif-developers,>>>> Atom labels as defined in the DDL1 core dictionary are, strictly speaking,>> allowed to contain whitespace, because the machine-readable parts of DDL1>> do not allow this to be expressed, and the text definition doesn't>> explicitly exclude it. mmCIF can and has explicitly restricted atom labels>> to not include whitespace in a machine-readable way, so our preference>> would be to follow suit. We are therefore contemplating (see>> https://github.com/COMCIFS/cif_core/pull/249) restricting atom labels to>> not contain whitespace. As far as I know there are no such entries in COD,>> but I thought it worth checking with this group first. Any objections?>>>> thanks,>> James._______________________________________________cif-developers mailing listcif-developers@iucr.orghttp://mailman.iucr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cif-developers

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