I'd say that we should just ignore empty "data_global".

Regards,
Jean

Le mardi 30 août 2011 à 18:06 +0200, Vincent Favre-Nicolin a écrit :
> Le 30/08/2011 17:44, Noel O'Boyle a écrit :
> > Google says that data_global is not part of the official standard but
> > it is often used in any case. The thread at
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg07178.html
> > tells us what Jmol decided to do: "Bob proposed not to ignore
> > data_global blocks, as I suggested,
> > but to check if they contained structural data, which is a better
> > idea.". If you google some more, you might find some more advice.
> 
>   Yes, data_global is used so in IUCr journals, so we can go that way
> and just issue a warning when finding a "data_global" entry without
> crystallographic info.
>   That should work, at least until some other database/journal/software
> decides that data_global is a nice name to put all the crystallographic
> data !
> 
>   Jean, what do you think ? It could also be reasonable to ignore any
> data_XXX which has no crystallographic information (no UC, no atoms) ?
> 
>     Vincent
> 
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