<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 3:48 PM, balabi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:balabi@qq.com" target="_blank">balabi@qq.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Dear developers,</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>messages to developers should be sent to <a href="mailto:q-e-developers@qe-forge.org">q-e-developers@qe-forge.org</a> <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"\005fae\008f6f\0096c5\009ed1";font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><div><div> I recently cloned developer version from <a href="https://github.com/QEF/q-e" target="_blank">https://github.com/QEF/q-<wbr>e</a> .</div><div> I found that the generated files in tmp folder by this developer version is different from 6.1 version</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>you may still use the old format by compiling with -D__OLDXML<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"\005fae\008f6f\0096c5\009ed1";font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><div><div> I used to extract information from "data-file.xml" for data postprocessing. But now the organization and most of the tag names are very different in "data-file-schema.xml". What is more, information in new "data-file-schema.xml" are not as complete as that in "data-file.xml".</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>quite the opposite: many important pieces of information were missing in the old format<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"\005fae\008f6f\0096c5\009ed1";font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><div><div> For example, in old "data-file.xml", the unit of reciprocal_lattice_vectors is specified in tag as "2 Pi /a" which is very clear, but there is no such info in new "data-file-schema.xml".</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>all quantities are in atomic (Hartree) units<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"\005fae\008f6f\0096c5\009ed1";font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><div><div></div><div> So why change the xml structure? </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>because the previous one wasn't satisfactory and had no "schema" for syntax checking<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"\005fae\008f6f\0096c5\009ed1";font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><div><div>And I want to know if data-file.xml will be replaced by data-file-schema.xml in future released version? </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>the old I/O will be deleted only after the release of the next version<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"\005fae\008f6f\0096c5\009ed1";font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5"><div><div>If so, of I think "data-file-schema.xml" may need some elaboration.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>feel free to elaborate on this, but please remember that the format of I/O files must fit everybody's need, not just yours, and that writing and implementing specifications for the new xml and data files is a major pain in the ***<br><br></div><div>Paolo<br clear="all"></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Paolo Giannozzi, Dip. Scienze Matematiche Informatiche e Fisiche,<br>Univ. Udine, via delle Scienze 208, 33100 Udine, Italy<br>Phone +39-0432-558216, fax +39-0432-558222<br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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