Development of Chemical Markup Language (CML) as a System for Handling Complex Chemical Content

Peter Murray-Rust ¹, Henry S. Rzepa ² and Michael Wright ²

(1) School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK - (2) Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK - March 28, 2001

The XML versions include active demonstrations and examples but can only be displayed in the appropriate version of Windows Internet Explorer.

Important: The default security setting in Internet Explorer disallows files access across domains. To correct this, open your security options at tools/internet options/security/custom level/, find misc/access data source across domains, change to enable and press ok.

The Chime and Adobe SVG plugins will be required.

XML/XSL Version - Internet Explorer 5 or 5.5

These are XML files transformed on-the-fly using XSL and CSS stylesheets. These files will NOT work with Internet Explorer 6.

• cmlarticle.xml is the main article
• supplemental.xml contains additional figures and appendices

XML/XSLT Version - Internet Explorer 6

These are XML files transformed on-the-fly using XSLT and CSS stylesheets. These files will NOT work with Internet Explorer 5.0/5.5.

• cmlarticle.xml is the main article
• supplemental.xml contains additional figures and appendices

XHTML Version

This version can be displayed with most up to date browsers. Netscape 4.x has some minor problems with XHTML <br/> and some browsers may not display the CSS. The Chime and Adobe SVG plugins will be required.

• cmlarticle.html is the main article
• supplemental.html contains additional figures and appendices (several are non functional using XHTML)

Others

• cmlarticle.fo formatting objects
• cmlarticle.pdf produced using FOP
• cmlarticle.rsc (experimental) RSC Primary Article 3.5 XML