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ANF staff are currently working with staff from Lindquist Consulting and staff at the IRIS DMC to develop XML schemas and Document Type Definitions (DTDs) for realtime seismic data.

XML development

The ANF is currently developing tools that will allow auto-generation of XML documents whenever a database is built and/or updated. The methodology is as follows (file type in red, process in blue):

STATION (ASCII) arrow DBBUILD arrow CSS3.0 SEED arrow DB2XML arrow XML arrow XSLT (xsltproc) arrow XML (IRIS FORMAT)

DBBUILD is part of the Antelope Seismic Information System (Datascope) realtime database suite of tools that allows rapid database creation using pre-defined templates.

DB2XML is a tool developed by Lindquist Consulting to convert any Datascope database view into XML formatted text files.

XSLTPROC is a command line utility developed by John Fleck for the libxml project that converts pre-existing XML documents into differently formatted files (XML, HTML) by applying XSL transformations with stylesheets.

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Last updated: 2008-07-31 18:40:40 UTC