Missing Functionality and Documentation

There are a number of issues that have not been included in this version of the interface description. These known ommissions, which will be incorporated in future releases of the documentation, include:

• a detailed description of the parsing rules used by CIFLIB
• a complete description of the CIFLIB error codes and the CIFLIB integrity checking process.
• a systematic treatment of the propagation of updates through a CIF schema.
• merge functions
• query functions