Mix one of the oldest and one of the latest computer technologies, and you get FoX (BSD license), a Fortran library for reading and writing Chemical Markup Language, and thus XML. Amazing, what Toby White achieved, though he did not start from scratch: “FoX evolved from the initial codebase of xmlf90, which was written largely by Alberto Garcia and Jon Wakelin.” (source: cml-discuss mailing list).

This post was originally posted as https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2006/08/fortran-and-xml-fox-reads-and-writes.html.