[webservices] station and SelectedNumberStations out of order

[Gary Fuis]

Hi,
Could you take me off this email list.    Gary Fuis (fuis at usgs.gov)

>Hello Philip and thank you for the feedback.  I am aware of this issue and will address it in a future release.  Thanks again for your time and effort.  Yazan
>
>
>On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Philip Crotwell wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> The StationXML schema says that the Network element should be a sequence of:
>>   StartDate
>>   EndDate
>>   Description
>>   TotalNumberStations
>>   SelectedNumberStations
>>   Station
>>   ...
>>   Station
>>
>> However, the current iris station web service currently sends back
>>   StartDate
>>   EndDate
>>   Description
>>   TotalNumberStations
>>   Station
>>   ...
>>   Station
>>   SelectedNumberStations
>>
>> which makes the resulting XML document invalid. This is kind of a pain
>> if you actually go to the trouble of validating the document before
>> parsing (sometimes a good idea) but also the "SelectedNumberStations"
>> element is kind of pointless in that the client has already parsed all
>> the station elements by that point and so already knows how many there
>> are.
>>
>> At any rate, this out of order causes an error in my seisFile library
>> as it doesn't expect to find elements inside a Network element after
>> the Station elements. The result is that only one network in the file
>> is parsed and all further ones are ignored.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Philip
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